Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 15 2010

Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 9:25 am
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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 15 2010

1: Writers and Readers Week: Neil Gaiman

Lyndon Hood

Under De Goldi's questioning, Gaiman described how he had inadvertently become a specialist in Edwardian literature, and G.K. Chesterton in particular, due to the limited selection of his school library.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00159.htm

2: Forest & Bird reveals Government mining plans

Forest And Bird

Conservation organisation Forest & Bird has uncovered Government plans to allow mining in 7000 hectares of high-value conservation land in the West Coast’s Paparoa National Park, Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel Peninsula.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00212.htm

3: Get that brain active and help prevent dementia

Alzheimers New Zealand

Let’s face it, dementia is scary: there is no cure and the number of people with the disease is doubling every 20 years. Each year over 12,000 New Zealanders are diagnosed with the disease and some of these people are as young as 40.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00064.htm

4: Immunise now the flu is on its way

Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health predicts the flu season in New Zealand will come early this year and the pandemic H1N1 (swine flu) virus will be the dominant strain.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00066.htm

5: Far North GP gets Peter Snow Memorial Award

the New Zealand Rural General Practice

Wellsford GP Dr Tim Malloy is the 2010 recipient of the Peter Snow Memorial Award.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00065.htm

6: Volunteers 35+ wanted for exercise research

Canterbury District Health Board

Researchers are hoping to recruit overweight people aged 35-60 who are not currently exercising for a new study that will look at the best walking-based ‘exercise prescription’ to motivate them to participate in physical activity.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00067.htm

7: Public Health Mapua Report Released

Ministry of Health

Expert advice to the Ministry of Health is that it is unlikely there are adverse long-term health effects for local residents from the Mapua clean-up process.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00068.htm

8: Changes to AOD Services Designed to Improve Access

Canterbury District Health Board

Canterbury District Health Board says its new Alcohol and Drug framework will not exclude people involved in the justice system from specialist addiction treatment as was suggested in today’s The Press (15.3.10).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00069.htm

9: Archaic attitude to criminal justice dangerous

United Future NZ Party

A new Canterbury District Health Board policy will severely limit the ability of prison inmates or other justice clients to access drug and alcohol addiction services.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00198.htm

10: Wintec Chooses JVC Cameras

JVC

The Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) is one of New Zealand’s largest Institutes of Technology/Polytechnics and a leading provider of high quality, vocational and professional education in the Waikato region. With seven campuses throughout the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00372.htm

11: Hide: Local Govt Asset Mgmt & Engineering Forum

New Zealand Government

You have asked me to talk about: - my proposed amendments to the Local Government Act 2002 to increase transparency, accountability and fiscal management, including increasing the flexibility of water service provision; - the structure of the new ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00204.htm

12: Drivers of crime no longer important to Nats?

New Zealand Labour Party

Preventing alcohol and drug addicts from accessing addiction services in Canterbury is a short-sighted and stupid move, Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson and Corrections spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove say.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00201.htm

13: President Obama’s trip to Asia & Australia – maybe

Connie Lawn

“We really wish the President would stop in New Zealand – they are good friends to us.” That was the message conveyed to me from one Asian-Pacific expert. He and many others are working very hard on President Obama’s scheduled trip to Australia, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00175.htm

14: Arrest of whaling activist a major incident

New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance Party says the arrest and trial of Peter Bethune by the Japanese is a major diplomatic incident for New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00214.htm

15: C’mon Rodney - let’s focus on the real issues

Federated Farmers

Federated Farmers thinks it’s time for Rodney District Council to put aside petty politicking and focus on getting the best deal for its residents.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00170.htm

16: Moving Right & Going Wrong: Education in Texas

Binoy Kampmark

Censors, it has been said, are paid to have dirty minds. Education panellists, at least in certain jurisdictions, are paid to prevent the exercise of one at all. For that reason, fifteen unknown individuals in a state should not be vested with the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00167.htm

17: FPA to take over Australian distribution of Haier

Businesswire

March 15 (BusinessWire) - Fisher & Paykel Appliances Holdings, the white ware manufacturer who introduced Chinese Company Haier as a 20% stake holder last year, announced today that it will take over the sales, marketing and customer care service ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00381.htm

18: Open day to discuss bypassing for Belfast

New Zealand Transport Agency

An open day for the proposed Western Belfast Bypass aims to give local residents an opportunity to talk first hand to NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) about the options being considered for this project.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00169.htm

19: Government appoints wool sector leader

New Zealand Government

Agriculture Minister David Carter has appointed Dr Murray Horn to lead work towards forming a single body for the New Zealand wool industry.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00199.htm

20: Trans-Pacific Partnership: Jumping on Sinking Ship

CAFCA

Talks started in Melbourne today for the US, Australia, Peru and Vietnam to join an expanded Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP, currently comprising NZ, Chile, Brunei, and Singapore, known as the P4 Agreement), with November 2011, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00222.htm

21: Let’s Wait and See…

Newmont Waihi Gold

Newmont Waihi Gold is awaiting the release of the government’s discussion document about Schedule 4 land within the Crown Minerals Act. The government document is expected to be released for public consultation some time this month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00378.htm

22: Hubbard vehicle sells stake in Salvus to Milford

Businesswire

March 15 (BusinessWire) – A company related to Timaru-based businessman Allan Hubbard has sold its 17% shareholding in Salvus Strategic Investments Ltd. to Milford Funds Ltd. for just under $2.5 million.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00376.htm

23: Bryan Law: Waihopai Ploughshares Trial - Day 5

Bryan Law

The testimony and cross-examination of the Waihopai defendents is complete. Defence counsel are well pleased so far. Adi Leason enlivened the jury. Peter Murnane educated them. Sam Land loved and honoured them.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00153.htm

24: New Zealand’s Conference Business On The Rise

Meetings 2010

The conference and incentive market spend is steadily on the rise and New Zealand is increasingly under the global spotlight as ‘the’ place to do business in 2010.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00364.htm

25: Race Relations Commissioner Should Go

NZ Centre For Political Research

The Prime Minister has said that New Zealand has far too many state agencies for a country of our size. He’s not wrong. It’s one of the reasons why government spending has escalated out of control.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00220.htm

26: MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares mixed; SKC up, GPG down

Businesswire

March 15 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand shares were mixed in light trading. Sky City Entertainment Group rose after reiterating its profit forecast and Guinness Peat Group fell after warning that rising raw material costs will dent the recovery at ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00380.htm

27: Government report on mining must be released now

New Zealand Labour Party

The Government needs to release its report on where it thinks more mining should be allowed in the conservation estate now, so the public can see for themselves just what it is planning, Labour Conservation spokesperson David Parker says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00196.htm

28: PM’s Presser – Mining leak “hysteria”

Rory MacKinnon

Reporters dug and dug, but there was no gold in them thar hills at Prime Minister John Key’s post-Cabinet press conference.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00180.htm

29: Mangere: Man killed in truck accident

New Zealand Police

A man was killed at 11.53am today when he was run over by a truck in Gadsby Road, Mangere.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00168.htm

30: Damning Report on Health Effects at Mapua

Green Party

The Ministry of Health’s media around the Public Health Mapua Report is an attempt to whitewash a very serious situation, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00202.htm

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