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Gisborne people are continuing to save water. Water consumption is now down by a third. If the savings continue, water rationing measures that looked likely earlier in the week will not be required, says Gisborne District Council deputy chief executive Peter Higgs. "Our target was to reduce water use to less than 14,000m3 per day. This was achieved yesterday. Thank you to all the Gisborne people who have made this happen."

"Good progress is being made fixing the pipes. Fulton Hogan, the contractor tasked with the repair job, has had staff working 24/7. They have brought in a range of subcontractors to get the job done as soon as possible. While yesterdays rain was brilliant in reducing demand for water, it had the potential to delay the pipe welding. This hold up was overcome by erecting rain proof gazebos above the areas where the welding was required."

"We are now expecting that the pipe will be repaired and the water flowing again by mid next week. In the mean time it is vital that we all keep our water use to a minimum. Until the pipe can reliably bring water from the Mangopoike Dams into the Waingake Treatment Plant we will continue to rely on emergency supplies from the Waipaoa Treatment Plant, and a small amount from the Te Arai River. We are aware that there will be extra pressure on our water supply next week as our major food processors ramp up production."

Even when we are able to get the pipe running again it will not be at full capacity for some time, says Chief executive Judy Campbell. We will need people to be careful with water until the end of summer."

"The reason we need to save water now because we are using more water than we can produce from our emergency water treatment operations. If we empty the town reservoirs then we will need to introduce rationing - that is turning off water supply for several hours a day. This will not only be inconvenient it will possibly contaminate the water (because when the pipes empty contaminants can get sucked back onto the pipes). That would mean we would all have to boil our water. If we continue to use less water than the treatment plants produce then the reservoirs will have enough water in them to continue to provide a careful supply 24/7"

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Release date: Friday 10 January 2013

Water use down, pipe repairs progressing well.

Gisborne people are continuing to save water. Water consumption is now down by a third. If the savings continue, water rationing measures that looked likely earlier in the week will not be required, says Gisborne District Council deputy chief executive Peter Higgs. Our target was to reduce water use to less than 14,000m3 per day. This was achieved yesterday. Thank you to all the Gisborne people who have made this happen.

Good progress is being made fixing the pipes. Fulton Hogan, the contractor tasked with the repair job, has had staff working 24/7. They have brought in a range of subcontractors to get the job done as soon as possible. While yesterdays rain was brilliant in reducing demand for water, it had the potential to delay the pipe welding. This hold up was overcome by erecting rain proof gazebos above the areas where the welding was required.

We are now expecting that the pipe will be repaired and the water flowing again by mid next week. In the mean time it is vital that we all keep our water use to a minimum. Until the pipe can reliably bring water from the Mangopoike Dams into the Waingake Treatment Plant we will continue to rely on emergency supplies from the Waipaoa Treatment Plant, and a small amount from the Te Arai River. We are aware that there will be extra pressure on our water supply next week as our major food processors ramp up production.

Even when we are able to get the pipe running again it will not be at full capacity for some time, says Chief executive Judy Campbell. We will need people to be careful with water until the end of summer.

The reason we need to save water now because we are using more water than we can produce from our emergency water treatment operations. If we empty the town reservoirs then we will need to introduce rationing - that is turning off water supply for several hours a day. This will not only be inconvenient it will possibly contaminate the water (because when the pipes empty contaminants can get sucked back onto the pipes). That would mean we would all have to boil our water. If we continue to use less water than the treatment plants produce then the reservoirs will have enough water in them to continue to provide a careful supply24/7

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Feng shui comes down to analyzing the results of calculations taken from measuring someone's face, palm, or even his furnishings in relation to natural features and cardinal directions.

Like any art that seeks contact with a higher plane, feng shui provides a fair field for charlatans. Tony Chan, on the road to his downfall and incarceration, billed Asia's wealthiest woman HK$6,500 for "feng shui" head rubs that evolved into "feng shui" full body massages.

Chinese University of Hong Kong history professor Ho Pui-yin speculates as much as half of Hong Kong's population have sought guidance from the ancient art.

She said while some may be embarrassed to admit it, feng shui celebrity columns are still found in most major dailies and fortune telling books sell briskly at convenience stores in the run up to the lunar new year.

The ancient art is also being updated for the digital age. Thirty-year-old feng shui master Kwong Ching-chuen says he is still working out the bugs of a feng shui smartphone-app by next year, which will help people orient their furniture.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University cross-cultural social psychologist Michael Bond said: "It is a system for altering one's fate when occupying a residence."

The practice is perhaps most apparent in Hong Kong's buildings where it has become part of due diligence in building design, Bond said.

"Why upset some Chinese occupants of office or other public buildings unnecessarily when the cost was low and the pay-off higher?" he said.

The ICC, IFC, HSBC building and Bank of China towers are oft-cited buildings which incorporate feng shui elements, though not all are publicly acknowledged by their owners.

Hong Kong's government is sensitive to local adherence to the belief system. The chief executive's official residence conforms to feng shui formulae and the bureaucracy has admitted it compensated17 parties who claimed nearby public works muddled the feng shui of their homes. They received an average of HK$4 million per claim, roughly the price of a second home in Hong Kong's outrageous property market.

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EIGHT residents in Golden Four Dr, Tugun, will have their beachside fences demolished by the Gold Coast City Council later this month, for encroaching on public Crown land, News Ltd reports.

Friends of Currumbin coordinated a series of protests which sparked the action, which will see fences, showers and landscaping which pass the public boundary line removed.

Initially residents were given until June 30 by the GCCC to remove their encroaching property if the State Government rejects their application to buy the public beachfront land, but now GCCC councilors have received legal advice the fences could be demolished immediately after the state government decision.

Tugun councillor Chris Robbins told News Ltd that Golden Four Drive residents affected will be given sufficient time to remove encroaching property and fences.

No Tugun Path leader Kate Malouf said that residents would appeal the decision if their application to buy the land is rejected.

"This has been a difficult few months and we have had everything from protests to the poisoning of grass along the boundary line. It's out of our hands now."

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President Barack Obama this week sought to assuage tensions that have crept into the U.S.-Germany relationship following revelations that the National Security Agency had been spying upon Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2002, with outrage in Berlin centred on the surveillance of her mobile phone.

On Wednesday Ms. Merkel was said to have accepted an invitation from Mr. Obama to visit the U.S. in the coming months to discuss, among other things, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations and NATO Summit, and other shared interests.

Although a White House readout of the two leaders phone call suggested that Mr. Obama had principally called Ms. Merkel to wish her a speedy recovery following pelvic injury and to congratulate her on the formation of her new cabinet, their discussion comes in the wake of a bilateral rift over the spying scandal.

While a spokesperson declined to say whether the NSA phone tap had been discussed, the release of top-secret intelligence documents on U.S. spy programmes by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last summer led to Ms. Merkels office warning that bugging friends is unacceptable.

Facts about the NSAs surveillance of targets in Germany came to light along with information on the Agencys monitoring of persons and institutions in a host of friendly nations, including India, the European Union, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and Turkey. Traditional ideological adversaries and sensitive Middle Eastern countries, were also on the list of targets, reports noted.

Soon after this it appeared that Mr. Obama was seeking to place distance between the White House and allegations that the NSA spied on Washingtons allies in Berlin, with Spokesperson Jay Carney saying, The concerns raised by our allies cause us concern too.

Congressional committees then grilled intelligence bosses such as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA chief Keith Alexander, and some leaders such as Senate Intelligence Committee Chairperson Dianne Feinstein said they were unequivocally totally opposed to the NSAs collection of intelligence on leaders of U.S. allies.

Following a sharp debate on imposing some restrictions on the programmes of the NSA, which in theory operates under rules set by the shadowy Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court, Mr. Obama appeared to be leaning towards recommendations of a review panel to shift responsibility for the bulk collection of telephone records away from the NSA and on to the phone companies, in a bid to restore public confidence.

In a press conference last month Mr. Obama said that in light of the disclosures coming from documents supplied by Mr. Snowden, It is clear that whatever benefits the configuration of this particular programme may have, may be outweighed by the concerns that people have on its potential abuse.

With Mr. Obama likely to make a final decision on reforming surveillance programmes in the coming months, his broad endorsement of reform came on the back of a federal judge saying for the first time ever that the NSAs programmes were very likely to be unconstitutional.

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Cars, fences and a motorbike were sprayed with paint on four occasions between Sunday and Tuesday.

Police are linking four cases of criminal damage in which paint was sprayed onto cars and fences.

Grey spray paint was used in the four incidents which happened in Woosehill between Sunday and Tuesday.

The first happened in Minden Close when a fence and a motorbike were sprayed with paint.

The second happened between 8am and 4pm on Monday in Trafalgar Close when the car bonnet of a Mini Cooper was sprayed with paint.

Between 9.30pm on Monday and 7am on Tuesday in Culloden Way a fence was sprayed with paint.

On Tuesday between 6.20pm and 7.45pm in Mons Close a garage door and the number plate of a Ford Fiesta were sprayed with paint.

PC Paul Bentley, investigating officer, said: I am appealing to anyone who may have seen someone acting suspiciously or has any information about the incidents to get in touch with us.

Mainly grey spray paint has been used and we believe these incidents are linked.

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The Electrical Trades Union plans to take the state government to the High Court over amendments to its bikie legislation, which will see some members lose their electrical licences come July.

State Secretary Peter Simpson said members with links to criminal motorcycle gangs had begun to raise concerns with him about their ability to keep doing their job once the amendments to the Electrical Safety Act, passed as part of Criminal Organisations Disruption legislation, comes into effect.

"I've never even been spoken to by the police, but now I am probably going to lose my job? It makes no sense to me

Anyone who has declared their membership to a prescribed club, through words or action, sought to have been a member, or attended one or more meetings or gatherings of people who are members or associates, is in danger of losing their electrical licence or not having it renewed.

No licence means no job.

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I have spoken to some ETU members, who are members of the Rebels, members of the Black Uhlans and the Hells Angels and have been for many years," he said.

"And in most cases the people I have spoken to, their families are members as well so they won't be able to renew their electrical licences.

So we have electricians with no criminal record having their honest livelihoods taken off them.

What that is in turn doing is driving them into crime. Imagine being an electrician in a regional area, like a lot of our guys are, working in construction or in the mines.

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Belmond city officials are concerned about getting 150th Street paved this summer. Eighteen months ago the city and county agreed to share the cost of paving the gravel road from Highway 69 west to the driveway of the new Max Yield fertilizer plant.

City Manager Lee Ann Waltzing told the city council Monday night that the county engineer told her the work is not on the current county road plan -- that some jobs had been pushed back on the calender.

Whats the holdup? asked Councilman Harlan Tulp. Didnt we already agree to that?

We have a responsibility to our local industry, said City Attorney Gary Berkland. We promised Max Yield that paving job.

Several other city leaders express displeasure with the possibility that the project will be delayed again.

Waltzing said she will contact County Supervisor Stan Watne and Wright County Economic Development Director Brad Hicks about the matter. She promised to report her findings to the council at the next meeting.

In other business, the council:

--approved re-taking bids for sewer plant improvements. The bids will be opened January 15 at 2 p.m. and the council will have the chance to accept a bid on January 20;

--heard that public works employees are trying to keep certain parts of the sewer plant running the best they can, but there continue to be problems and breakdowns;

--discussed the website belmond.com which is owned and operated by the city, chamber of commerce and industrial development group. Someone is trying to buy the name belmond.com, using an attorney as a front. Local officials do not know who the person is or why they are trying to buy the name. All city leaders agreed that selling the name was a bad idea;

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