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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 16 2010

Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 9:13 am
Article: Scoop Daily Ratings

1: 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

2: 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

3: 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

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4: Care Chemist's Campaign to Cut Blood Pressure

Care Chemist
Care Chemist, New Zealand’s fastest growing community pharmacy group, has launched a wallet card campaign to cut the country’s high blood pressure levels and help save the 16 people who die from heart disease every day.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00070.htm

5: 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

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: Pharmacists fill gaps to help reach health targets

Pharmacy Guild
Community pharmacies are well-placed to step into the gaps where primary health organisations (PHOs) are struggling to meet community health needs, says the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00072.htm

8: 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

9: Keeping more Kiwi hearts beating

Jennian Homes
Canterbury builders and their families are stepping out this Sunday (21 March) to do their bit to help win the race against heart disease.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00071.htm

10: Samsung launches NX10 digital camera

Samsung
Fresh from its launch at CES 2010, the new – and now award-winning – Samsung NX10 digital camera has arrived in New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00399.htm

11: Bryan Law: Waihopai Ploughshares Trial - Day 7

Bryan Law
It seems an age ago, but the Waihopai defendants finished their personal testimony only last Friday 12 March. The time since has been spent in legal discussion and decision-making by the Judge and legal Counsel.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00194.htm

12: Southland and Otago DHBs Revise Smokefree policy

District Health Boards
Southland and Otago DHBs are committed to protecting their communities from the harm caused by smoking and are launching a revised and stronger Smokefree policy to reaffirm this fact.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00073.htm

13: Put whaling on trial, not Pete Bethune

Green Party
The New Zealand Government should denounce the arrest of whaling protester Pete Bethune and use all available diplomatic channels to bring him home, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00212.htm

14: Litmos Releases NZ’s First SCORM Certification

Litmos
In a continuing effort to provide a premium service, Litmos has now officially adopted the SCORM standard in its popular Learning Management System (LMS) . This strategic development in response to industry demand will further increase the adoption of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00395.htm

15: Hide spins in face of mounting opposition

New Zealand Labour Party
Labour's Auckland Issues spokesperson, Phil Twyford says “Minister of Local Government, Rodney Hide is misleading Aucklanders on a daily basis as the list of super city critics grows longer and longer.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00214.htm

16: Fresh Lick of Paint for Old Hospital Buildings

Waikato District Health Board
Waikato Hospital’s creamy terracotta buildings are a familiar view for many Hamiltonians and people travelling through town.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00074.htm

17: Questions for Oral Answer - 16 March 2010

Office of the Clerk
# Hon PHIL GOFF to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his comments with regard to mining in the conservation estate? # CRAIG FOSS to the Minister of Finance: Has he received any recent reports about the state of the New Zealand economy; if so, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00213.htm

18: 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

19: Windflow Technologies facing cash-flow crunch

Businesswire
by Pattrick Smellie March 16 (BusinessWire) - Anticipated mismatches between production and receipts, as well as the impact of financial difficulties at wind turbine maker Windflow Technologies Ltd.'s sole customer is revealed in the company's results for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00419.htm

20: Vector Fibre Debate: Vector CEO Simon Mackenzie

The Vector Fibre Debate
The theme of this forum is "open for business", and I want to talk about the key investment that will drive New Zealand's "openness" in the next decades.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1003/S00054.htm

21: Name Release - Fatal Truck Accident

New Zealand Police
A man killed yesterday in a truck accident on Gadsby Road, Mangere has been named.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00181.htm

22: Fonterra rescues organic milk suppliers

Federated Farmers
With Taranaki-based New Zealand Organic Dairy Farmers Co-operative (NZODFC) going into receivership, Federated Farmers is praising Fonterra Cooperative Group for extending NZODFC suppliers a lifeline.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00414.htm

23: Eyewitness to a Revolution in Nepal

Ben Peterson
In 2006, a peoples’ movement overthrew Nepal’s hated King Gyanendra and the oppressive monarchical structure. Today, the Nepalese people are striving to build a new and better society.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00180.htm

24: Rodney Hide at INGENIUM Local Govt Forum

New Zealand Government
As you know I have been promoting work to improve the transparency, accountability and fiscal management in the local government sector. In-house, we call this TAFM.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00208.htm

25: 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

26: Private Exploitation of a Public Resource

NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers
Private Exploitation of a Public Resource The NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers congratulates Doug Stevens for highlighting (‘Morning Report’) a growing problem about which we have expressed concern for some years, namely ‘fishing access being ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00226.htm

27: Single point of entry to combat Mt Eden contraband

Department Of Corrections
Attempting to smuggle contraband into Mt Eden and Auckland Central Remand (ACRP) Prisons has just got a lot tougher with the introduction of a secure single point of entry to the site.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00179.htm

28: Obama's Trip To Guam, Indonesia And Australia

The White House
MR. RHODES: Thanks, everybody, for joining today. With me is Jeff Bader, Senior Director for Asia here at the NSC, who you know well; and Denis McDonough, Chief of Staff for the NSC, as well.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00294.htm

29: Say no to CCOs

Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Government to remove the creation of Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs) from the third Super City Bill.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00211.htm

30: Minister of Conservation needs to take control

New Zealand Labour Party
The Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson needs to take control of the biggest issue in her portfolio and give New Zealanders certainty that there will be no mining in National Parks, Labour Conservation spokesperson David Parker says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00217.htm

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