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In an escalation of his battle with the central government, Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga suggested Monday he may revoke earlier permission for the destruction of reefs in the course of land reclamation for the replacement base for the Futenma airfield.

Speaking at a news conference in the prefectural capital of Naha, Onaga said he has requested the Okinawa Defense Bureau to suspend any act that changes the status quo of the seabed and warned he may revoke the permission unless the bureau stops the work within a week.

Site preparation so far has included dropping huge concrete blocks onto the seabed weighing 15 to 45 tons, which will anchor buoys demarcating the construction zone.

Local media reported that some of the blocks appeared to have crushed coral growths.

At his news conference, Onaga demanded that the central government halt the work within a week so that the prefectural government can check out the reports.

An Okinawa official reached by phone told The Japan Times that Onaga was asked at the news conference whether he would revoke permission.

Ive already made up my mind, Onaga replied, according to the official.

The remark was widely interpreted as meaning he will annul the permit if Tokyo continues with the construction work without pausing to assess the possible coral damage.

The central government appears likely to ignore it. Also Monday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in Tokyo that the government will not stop any part of its construction work in Henoko, including an ongoing drilling survey, whatever actions the Okinawa Prefectural Government might take.

We will just calmly go ahead with the work, Suga told his regularly scheduled news conference.

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Cyclists in Saffron Walden are set to benefit after Uttlesford district councillors pledged 300,000 towards three community initiatives.

The move comes after Uttlesford District Council's cabinet approved the allocation of the six-figure sum from the Strategic Initiatives Fund at their most recent meeting.

The following will be allocated from the Fund:

Cllr Robert Chambers, cabinet member for finance and administration, said: "The Strategic Initiatives Fund was set up last year with the money coming from savings made by the Council over the past few years. Further investment was made into the Fund as part of the budget for 2015-16.

"Through the Fund we are keen to back projects that benefit as many people in the district as possible. These particular schemes have been identified as meeting the Council's objectives in supporting both our communities and the local environment, and are positive, long-term commitments to the residents of Uttlesford and more initiatives will follow."

The Uttlesford Cycling Strategy was given cabinet approval in February and lists aspirations to identify ways to boost cycling in the district.

The investment will work in line with the strategy to assist with the replacement and provision of cycle stands, signage and small scale works.

The council has argued Neighbourhood Plans are a "key" tool in allowing local communities to bring forward ideas and plans for their area to develop. A paper on how the funding will be used to benefit neighbourhood planning will be presented to the Uttlesford Planning Policy Working Group on March 30.

Photovoltaic panels will be installed on the Council's vehicle workshop and museum store at Shire Hill depot in Saffron Walden. District councillors expressed hope this would provide 'free' electricity to the buildings and give a small income to the Council from the feed-in tariff. The proposal is subject to a survey and potential structural costs.

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Northampton County Executive John Brown will have to fill a vacancy in his cabinet after Director of Public Works Richard Young tendered his resignation this week.

Young will have served just over a year on the job when he steps down next Friday. In that time, he began a presentative maintenance program at the Human Services building in Bethlehem Township, oversaw construction on dozens of bridges and began repairs on the Louise Moore Pine farmhouse, among other projects.

One of his first acts in office was repairing a broken generator at Gracedale for $3,000. Young estimated the county wasted about $50,000 by leasing the replacement for 18 months instead of fixing it.

"He did a good job here. I wish him well," Brown said Thursday.

Brown said the county will seek out internal and external candidates to replace Young, who made $95,921 in his first year.

Young said Friday a personal matter led him to reassess his career path, and he found he wanted to do less administrative work.

During his six-and-a-half years as Allentown's director of public works, he split his duties between engineering and running the department, but his time at Northampton County was spent mostly overseeing other engineers and tending to paperwork, he said.

"The higher up you go in engineering, the less engineering you do," he said.

Young, 60, will start working for T&M Associates in Bethlehem as a principal engineer at the end of the month, he said.

Although county politics have grown more combative in the past year, Young enjoyed wide support from both sides of the political aisle.

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LAND GRAB: Property records have come a long way, albeit at a high price, since the first house in Invercargill was sketched by a surveyor in 1856.

Another costly government computer project, this time worth tens of millions of dollars, is in the wings.

Land Information New Zealand said the replacement of its Landonline computer system would cost substantially more than the $42 million estimate it provided to ministers in 2013.

Deputy chief executive Russell Turner would not say whether the bill for the new system, the Advanced Survey and Title Services system (ASaTS), might be more than the original cost of Landonline, which was completed in 2003 at a cost of $141m after a $46m blow-out.

Land Information said it was now time to start planning for a replacement of Landonline. A Cabinet paper in 2013 quoted the likely cost at $42m. At the time, it was envisaged ASaTS would reuse some parts of Landonline.

But Turner said that original estimate had been "very indicative". A tender had since revealed that because few other countries had developed similar systems, there were few "off the shelf" components available and "a high level of customisation" would be needed in any change, he said.

"As a result ... the true cost of the project and is likely to be substantially higher than the earlier indicative figures," he said.

Turner said ASaTS was expected to take a similar length of time as Landonline, about five years, to complete. "As we are still at a relatively early stage in the development of the [project] and preparing a detailed business case for Cabinet, we are not able to discuss the likely budget at this stage," he said.

A parliamentary select committee reported the business case was likely to be ready in "a couple of months".

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In this May 12, 2014 photo, Illinois state Sen. Darin LaHood, R-Dunlap, greets people during opening ceremonies for an intersection in Peoria, Ill. (AP Photo/Journal Star, Fred Zwicky, file)

PEORIA, Ill. The son of former White House Cabinet member Ray LaHood emerged as the leading contender Wednesday to replace U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, as two other potential candidates abandoned thoughts of seeking the seat that is coming open after a spending scandal forced the Illinois congressman's abrupt resignation.

State Sen. Darin LaHood, whose father held the central Illinois seat before Schock and then served as President Barack Obama's transportation secretary, announced that he would seek the seat Wednesday morning during an appearance on a radio show in Peoria, where his family has resided for decades.

"This is an opportunity that doesn't come around very often," LaHood said, saying he had received "a lot of encouragement" to make a bid for the post in the hours that followed Schock's announcement Tuesday.

LaHood said he plans to campaign on his record as a former state and federal prosecutor, and on his record as a fiscal conservative who advocated for ethics reform. He said he considers himself more conservative than his father.

"I've got a conservative voting record here, a strong record in the senate, so I'll stand on that," he said.

Two other GOP state senators Jason Barickman and Bill Brady were considering bids, but both said they had decided against running in a special election that Gov. Bruce Rauner will call after Schock leaves office March 31. It must be held within 120 days, meaning voters will select a replacement by the end of July.

Schock's departure, fast and hard even by Washington's standards, was still resonating Wednesday for the area's politicians and Schock's constituents.

Schock accepted rides on donors' private planes without properly reporting them, made improbably lucrative real estate deals with political supporters, and spent $40,000 in taxpayer money to decorate his office in the style of "Downton Abbey" money he paid back after the expenditures came under question.

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BELGRADE -- Transparency Serbia President Vladimir Goati has said he "doubts whether the announced cabinet reshuffle will in fact take place."

This university professor and political analyst and commentator told Tanjug on Wednesday it was also "utterly unrealistic" to expect either replacement of coalition partners, or changes at the helm of the government.

"It seems to me this will turn out to be much ado about nothing," Goati said, adding that he thought it was highly unlikely the SNS would get rid of its current coalition partners, "considering that SPS leader Ivica Dacic as the Progressives (SNS) coalition partner in the government is also an official in European bodies."

"That's the anchor that, in a way, keeps him in office. Replacing the president of the SPS would probably be characterized as putting into question of some kind the country's foreign policy course," he said.

Goati also thinks chances are slim for another party to replace the SPS, "because there is nobody in the current parliament who could do that."

The possibility of a change at the helm of the government is "completely unrealistic," he said, and added:

"Of course, anything's possible, just as it is possible that Halley's comet, that flies by Earth every 76 years, might once fly by after 75 years."

As for the postponement of the reshuffle until after provincial and local elections, Goati said that would mean "extending the deadline by which the Sword of Damocles will hang over the ministers' heads."

This kind of delay, he thinks,could also provide an opportunity for "someone who should not be in the government to leave in a nice way and save face."

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John Key says he won't be putting himself forward as a replacement X Factor NZ judge.

Mr Key joked with reporters at this afternoon's post Cabinet press conference, giving a very definite "no".

"Plenty of people judge me it's the other way round, I don't judge other people."

In response to a question about whether Natalia Kills' behaviour was an example of bullying in New Zealand culture, Mr Key said he had not followed the debate.

"I don't have time I'm too busy doing other things."

However he said New Zealanders clearly enjoyed the programme, which had received more than $2 million in funding from NZ on air over two seasons.

"I guess people vote with their eyeballs.

"They're only going to fund things and TV channels will only basically play things that get popular support for the most part.

"And all of these sort of shows, X Factor and others do attract a lot of support.

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Okinawa Defense Bureau resumed the boring survey Thursday morning, on the seabed off Henoko. The survey is necessary for the construction of the V-shaped runways for the replacement facility of MCAS Futenma.

The move drew immediate response from Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga who called the re-start of the survey utterly deplorable. Onaga was elected governor on a pledge to block the construction and prevent the transfer of MCAS Futenma to another location within the prefecture. I will use every possible means to realize my campaign pledge of not allowing the construction of the replacement facility in Henoko, Onaga told reporters in Tokyo.

However, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters at a separate press conference that the government would carry on with the survey without delay making sure that the environment is protected.

About 100 local protesters opposing the construction work held a sit-in rally in front of the gate of Camp Schwab criticizing the Defense Bureau for bulldozing the work plan through. The riot police that have been stationed at the gate cleared them off, but the chaotic situation continued. On the ocean, Japan Coast Guard rubber boats and protesters boats faced each other.

The boring work was started for the first time since last September when the work was suspended because of bad weather and in consideration of the November gubernatorial and December Lower House elections. This is also the first time the work has resumed since Takeshi Onaga administration took office. Governor Onaga has issued an order to Okinawa Defense Bureau to stop the construction work outside of the off limits area. However, the national government insists that they are not violating instructions from the prefectural government.

The Okinawa Defense Bureau was scheduled to complete the drilling survey before the end of March, but it seems impossible to finish in time, and is expected to take longer. However, Japans Defense Minister Gen Nakatani has said that the government wants to start the landfill in he summer as scheduled.

The Okinawa Defense Bureau is planning to conduct the boring survey at 12 points on land, shallow seabed and deep areas.

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