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Just look what lines company Vector stuck on a power pole last week right in the middle of our harbour view, says Warwick Thompson of Milford. "They were given an (un-notified) resource consent by the North Shore City Council to do this. Isn't this visual pollution of the environment in the extreme? The irony of living in "Seaview Rd" is not lost on me, either. I'd be interested to know of other readers' Vector stories and how much worse they are than mine."
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Murray Smith was at the St Peters School Fair where one of the sideshows was throwing a ball at a target in order to tip Rodney Hide into a pool of water. He overheard a group of teenagers talking:
Teen girl: "What's this Rodney's Hide thing, I have never heard of it before?" Teen boy: "I think he is that athlete or something."
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There are no drinking sessions or popping of champagne around the buildings but people are relieved the decision has come, said Diagnostic Medlab chief executive Dr Arthur Morris last week after the High Court decision which put Medlab back in the running for Auckland's diagnostic testing contract. What he didn't say was he and 13 other executives were on their way to Vivace where they quaffed 11 bottles of French champagne and 15 bottles of top-notch wine costing more than $2000, says Sunday News. "It was more of a relief than a wild celebration," said Morris.
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An auction on Trade Me is selling a Silent Healing CD which offers "74 minutes of powerful silence". Apparently this CD has been "developed using advanced technology associated with analysis and balancing of problems in the subtle energy systems of the body and personal spaces". Huh? The CD contains more than "34,000 different homoeopathic type remedies" and when played it "releases the homeopathic type patterns to harmonise imbalances". The benefits listed in the auction claim the Silent Healing CD counteracts adverse energy from TV, computer games and internet, reduces the effects of "sick office syndrome" and helps calm children and animals. All this for $80.
