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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 17 2010

Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:29 am
Article: Scoop Daily Ratings

1: 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

2: Binoy Kampmark: The Clarke-Bingle Saga

Binoy Kampmark
Sporting stars have featured rather poorly of late. Tiger Woods became known less for his putting than his dalliances and treatment sessions for nymphomania. The publicity vultures swooped in and carried off their treasured morsels of carrion. But now, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00198.htm

3: Waihopai Ploughshares Trio Acquitted On Charges

Bryan Law
Before the report below from Bryan Law was published - shortly after 6pm tonight - the Jury of 11 returned with not-guilty verdicts for all defendants on all charges. The three defendants had been charged with intentional damage and entering a property ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00202.htm

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4: New Zealander’s detention in Japan Unlawful?

Green Party
The Government could explore the legal opportunity in the Maritime Crimes Act 1999, to release New Zealander Pete Bethune, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00226.htm

5: America’s first carbon neutral city

Davis California
DAVIS, CA - The city with the nation’s first bike lanes and climate specific energy efficiency ordinance is teaming up with former Olympic Torch Relay director and Earth Run organizer David Gershon to achieve the impossible. By unanimous vote of its city ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00313.htm

6: Brainweek - Roadmap to a healthy brain

Neurological Foundation
Physical exercise has a protective effect on the brain and its mental processes, and may even help prevent dementia. Regular exercise promotes cardio-vascular health, boosts levels of brain-protective chemicals and reduces stress. Aim for at least ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00076.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: Moron deliberately breached resource consent

Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Morton Estate Wines Limited was convicted in Hastings District Court today on three charges and fined a total of $50,000.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00455.htm

9: Grow Your Brain by Being a Bro

Neurological Foundation
Brain Awareness Week, a public health initiative by the Neurological Foundation, is back March 15-21, and in addition to the popular daily tasks, tips and puzzles to grow your brain from last year, 2010 is all about getting out with your mates, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00075.htm

10: Questions and Answers - 16 March 2010

Office of the Clerk
Hon PHIL GOFF (Leader of the Opposition) : I acknowledge the Speaker’s success at the Helensville Show on the weekend.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00222.htm

11: U.S. Surveillance Blimp Fights Harsh Criticism

Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- An Arlington, Virginia-based company is defending its harshly criticized US $ 9.7 million sale of a helium-filled blimp, equipped with infrared thermal cameras, to Thailand's army for hunting Islamist guerrillas in the south. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00188.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: Ministry of Health consulting with staff

Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health today released a proposal for consultation with staff about the structure of the Ministry of Health
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00078.htm

14: 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

15: Govt cap holds as resources shift to frontline

New Zealand Government
State Services Minister Tony Ryall has released the second six-monthly update on the government's cap of core government administration.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00231.htm

16: Government’s failure to consult insults Maori

New Zealand Labour Party
The Government’s failure to consult either Associate Corrections Minister Pita Sharples or the Maori Party on the three strikes policy is an insult to the Maori Party and proves how limited its influence is, says Labour MP Shane Jones.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00237.htm

17: MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares fall a 2nd day; TEL down

Businesswire
March 17 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand shares fell, pushing the NZX 50 Index down for a second day, as Telecom Corp. sank to a new record low and a resurgent kiwi dollar damped the prospects for companies including Fisher & Paykel Appliances.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00456.htm

18: Labour clumsy in opposition - Sharples

New Zealand Government
Maori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples says Labour is clumsy in opposition and suprisingly unclear about how multiple Ministerial roles work.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00245.htm

19: 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

20: 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

21: Genesis Energy Confirms Price Increase

ACT New Zealand
New Zealanders can definitely expect to have to pay more for power from July 1, with Genesis Energy CEO Albert Brantley's confirmation before the Finance Select Committee today that his company "will recover the cost" of complying with the Government’s ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00246.htm

22: Peter Bethune Held In Solitary Confinement

Gary Thomason
Gary Thomason arrived in Tokyo on Sunday 14th March less than 48 hours after Peter Bethune was arrested by the Japanese Coast Guard in Tokyo harbor, to lend support to Peter and understand the local situation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00317.htm

23: Georgia: Simulating War Or Provoking It?

Rick Rozoff
On the evening of March 13 Georgia's Imedi television channel ran a 30-minute prime time "simulated" newscast about a Russian invasion of the South Caucasus nation complete with a report that the country's mercurial and megalomaniacal president - Mikheil ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00312.htm

24: Kids suffer from Tolley’s haste to close Aorangi

New Zealand Labour Party
The education of children forced to leave Christchurch’s Aorangi School last year is suffering from Education Minister Anne Tolley’s haste to shut it down, Christchurch East MP Lianne Dalziel said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00242.htm

25: NZ Library considers Koha management software

Catalyst IT
Koha, a free, open-source Library Management Software platform originally developed in New Zealand, is among the options being considered for the proposed New Zealand Public Libraries Shared Library System Service.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00452.htm

26: Te Ururoa Flavell: Budget Policy Statement 2010

The Maori Party
This debate is timely as we reflect on the residual effects of the worst of the recession and concentrate on the six key areas that the Government is proposing to prompt growth in the economy.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00244.htm

27: Brainweek - Your Brain’s Best Buddy - Case Study

Neurological Foundation
One of the best prescriptions for improving brain health may also be one of the simplest and most fun to follow – spending time with your mates.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00077.htm

28: Minister presents report to Human Rights Committee

New Zealand Government
The Minister of Justice, Simon Power, this morning completed his presentation of New Zealand’s Fifth Periodic Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the Human Rights Committee in New York.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00220.htm

29: Reproductive Health Needed in Cyclone Relief

Family Planning Association
Dr Jackie Blue, MP and Chair of the cross-party New Zealand Parliamentarians' Group on Population and Development (NZPPD) congratulates New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs for getting relief supplies into Fiji quickly following the devastating cyclone ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00079.htm

30: NZ Companies Must Act Now to Retain Talent

Robert Half International
New Zealand companies need to start today thinking about how to retain key talent to prevent an exodus of our best and brightest to the thriving Australian economy said leading financial commentator, Bernard Hickey.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00454.htm

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