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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 03 2010
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 03 2010
1:
Judge’s
Ruling on Nudity ‘Morally
Bankrupt’
Family First Lobby.Family First NZ says that a High Court judge’s ruling that riding a bike naked is legal is morally bankrupt, offensive, and sets a dangerous precedent.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00039.htm
2:
Safer
Journeys: Making our roads safer
New Zealand GovernmentTransport Minister Steven Joyce today released a new ten year strategy designed to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads over the next decade.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00041.htm
3:
Weight
Watchers Approved Meals At McDonalds
McDonaldsToday McDonald’s New Zealand became the first McDonald’s market in the world to offer customers Weight Watchers Approved Meals.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00090.htm
4:
Murky
website deal raises questions for
Government
New Zealand Labour PartyThe Government needs to address serious concerns around a deal between the Ministry of Culture and Heritage and events website Eventfinder, Labour Associate Arts and Culture spokesperson Grant Robertson said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00057.htm
5:
Chile
Earthquake: Emergency Appeal Launched
International Committee of the Red CrossNew Zealand Red Cross has sent NZD $20,000 from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) in response to the International Red Cross emergency appeal for $7,000,000 Swiss francs (NZD $9,351,496).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00061.htm
6:
Queen
Mary 2: Get the best view
Ports of AucklandPorts of Auckland will welcome the Queen Mary 2, the largest cruise ship to visit New Zealand, for the third time on Thursday 4 March.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00050.htm
7:
Sri
Lanka: Undermining The Judiciary
Asian Human Rights CommissionThe former commander of the Sri Lankan army, retired general Sarath Fonseka is today under military detention in much the same way that tens of thousands of Sri Lankans from the south, north and east in detention facilities in the recent decades. More ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00072.htm
8:
Kiwi
clean tech company reports breakthrough in
US
Aquaflow Bionomic CorporationNew Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation announced today that it will be working with Honeywell’s UOP on a United States Department of Energy cooperative agreement project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide and cultivate algae for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00078.htm
9:
Sasha
Uzunov: ASIO’s Poor Record
Sasha UzunovThe alleged use of Australian passports by Mossad--Israeli intelligence—agents in a recent Middle East assassination suggest an impotent Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), which is responsible for our domestic safety. But ASIO has a ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00021.htm
10:
Lower
speeds mean fewer fatalities
Green PartyThe Government should take action to protect the most vulnerable road users — pedestrians and cyclists — by lowering urban speed limits, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00051.htm
11:
Federated
Farmers backs greenhouse gas centre
Federated FarmersFederated Farmers is welcoming today’s opening of the Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre in Palmerston North.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00098.htm
12:
What
about elderly drivers?
New Zealand Labour PartyWhat about elderly drivers? The Government should not neglect elderly New Zealanders in its road safety strategy, Labour Senior Citizens spokesperson Ross Robertson says. “A lot of the focus with the Government’s new policy has been improving the skill ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00055.htm
13:
Significant
reduction in road deaths in Taupo
Area
New Zealand PoliceA strong focus on road policing on state highways in the Taupo area over the past four months has paid off, with no fatal car crashes in the area since November. This is a significant improvement on the same period the previous year when there were ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00047.htm
14:
MARKET
CLOSE: NZX 50 hits 6-wk high; WBC, PPL
gain
BusinesswireMarch 3 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand shares rose, pushing the NZX 50 Index to the highest level since Jan. 26, as faster economic growth in Australia helped lift prospects for companies including Pumpkin Patch and Guinness Peat Group extended its gains ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00100.htm
15:
Govt
downplays biggest road safety
recommendation
Green PartyThe Government has chosen to place the blame on young people rather than highlight the most important recommendation to come out of the Ministry of Transport’s Safer Journeys discussion paper, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00047.htm
16:
Fringe
Review: Crimson Club
Anna Sutherland“Take me down to Paekakariki, where the grass is green and the boys are pretty!” Three women in red velvet dresses, playing an accordion, a violin, and a cello, and rocking out to Guns 'n' Roses – that was the encore number of Crimson Club’s ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00035.htm
17:
Background
Notes : Sudan (02/10)
US Department of State - Background NoteGeography Area: 2.5 million sq. km. (967,500 sq. mi.); the largest country in Africa and almost the size of continental U.S. east of the Mississippi River. Cities: Capital --Khartoum (pop. 1.4 million). Other cities --Omdurman (2.1 million), Port Sudan ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00024.htm
18:
Out
of Retirement for Golden Shears
Golden ShearsMASTERTON woolhandling competitor Sandra Edmonds-Reiri considered herself retired from the shearing board until a niggle to compete in this year’s 50^th Golden Shears won her over.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00099.htm
19:
Iran's
Slain ‘Angel of Freedom’
Geneva SummitGENEVA, March 2, 2010 -- One day after Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the UN in Geneva that President Ahmadinejad's June election was "an exemplary exhibition of democracy and freedom," Caspian Makan, the fiancé of slain Iranian ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00074.htm
20:
Arts
Festival Review: Yellowjackets
Nick van DijkThe Yellowjackets have been playing as a band since at least the 80s, and within the genre of slick Jazz fusion delivered the goods to an audience who seemed to know their music.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00029.htm
21:
NZ
Greenhouse Gas Research Centre opened
AgResearchIncreasing agriculture’s ability to create wealth for New Zealand in a carbon constrained world is the mission of the Government’s New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre opened today by the Prime Minister John Key in Palmerston North at ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1003/S00012.htm
22:
One-handed
clap for Government over RWC deal
New Zealand Labour PartyThe final deal on free-to-air television coverage of the Rugby World Cup concludes a messy process, but upholds an important principle, says Labour Broadcasting spokesperson Brendon Burns.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00059.htm
23:
Twyford
hits back over Super City criticism
New Zealand Labour PartyLabour's Auckland Issues spokesperson, Phil Twyford has hit back at criticism from Local Government Minister Rodney Hide saying Mr. Hide, more than any other person, has discredited the super city process.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00053.htm
24:
Symantec
Answers “Whose Data Is It
Anyway?”
SymantecSymantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Data Insight, a new technology that enables organisations to improve data governance through insights into the ownership and usage of unstructured data , including files such as documents, spreadsheets ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00094.htm
25:
2008
Lake Hayes Pinot Noir Wins Gold
Amisfield Wine CompanyAmisfield Wine Company’s expertise as a Pinot Noir producer has been further highlighted, with the awarding of a gold medal to the signature 2008 Lake Hayes Pinot Noir, at the prominent Royal Easter Show Wine Awards.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00095.htm
26:
Statement
by Kofi Annan on Chile Earthquake
Kofi Annan“I am shocked and deeply saddened by the devastating loss of life and damage caused by the earthquake in Chile.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00073.htm
27:
HazMobile
coming to Tauranga
Environment Bay of PlentyAfter a successful event in Katikati, HazMobile, a free collection service for household hazardous waste, will be in Tauranga on Saturday 13 March at the Maleme Street Transfer Station in Greerton from 9am to 2pm.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00049.htm
28:
Dedicated
to protecting families from violence
New Zealand PoliceFamily violence cases in Central District are now being reviewed by dedicated area coordinators to ensure that appropriate intervention has taken place to reduce further risks to victims.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00045.htm
29:
Meridian
to shed southern customers
BusinesswireMarch 3 (BusinessWire) - Meridian Energy will shed some of its South Island customers and is worried more government intervention will be required when it sheers off its Tekapo hydro-power stations and gives them to Genesis Energy under electricity reforms ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00089.htm
30:
Rugby
World Cup TV deal announced
New Zealand GovernmentRugby World Cup TV deal announced Rugby World Cup Limited today announced the New Zealand free-to-air television broadcast rights had been awarded to a consortium formed between Maori TV, TVNZ and TV3. Under the deal, New Zealanders will be able ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00054.htm
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