Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 14 July 2007

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Saturday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: No Need For Drugs When You Have 624 Hugs

Kelly Smith

Record breaker Alistair Galpin has done it again. With 624 hugs, Galpin broke the world record for most hugs in an hour beating the previous record by 12 hugs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00147.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

“Hospital contractor Spotless should get out of NZ Hospitals as their bullying approach to their workforce shows they have no place in our taxpayer funded public health system” said MP Mark Gosche today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00218.htm

Green Party

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This week's medium term oil report by the International Energy Agency should be the kiss of death for Michael Cullen's $1.5 billion spend up on roading, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00207.htm

ImagineNative

The white Australian Government have a long and dark history of treating Indigenous peoples like animals has been furthered by their current invasion of Aboriginal communities with military force and their advocating of compulsory invasive medical testing for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00157.htm

The Diffusion Group

Early this week, TiVo announced that that it would extend its Amazon Unbox on TiVo service to the living room TV without the use of personal computer. Previously, the Unbox on TiVo service required users to download content to their PC and then use ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0707/S00025.htm

Reserve Bank

The Reserve Bank today announced changes to its financing and management of New Zealand's foreign currency reserves.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00257.htm

ACT New Zealand

While it's good to see that the Service and Food Workers Union is now negotiating with Spotless Services without involving District Health Boards, these new developments do not change the fact that Labour should not have stuck its nose where it doesn't ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00222.htm

John Bishop

So we didn’t get the America’s Cup back. What’s your reaction? Mine was the usual mixture of denial – it wasn’t that big a deal anyway; defiance, well it was really about which bunch of Kiwis won the cup; defeatism - well it’s hard to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00154.htm

Hyundai

Hyundai senior athlete Barbara Kendall took second in Boardsailing while Andrew Murdoch, part of the Hyundai-funded Pinnacle mentor programme, also took silver in the Olympic Laser class.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00267.htm

Scoop Audio

95bFM Audio: Mikey Havoc opens the floor to Coca Cola Amatil's Amy Driscoll, for its right of reply to Warren Snow's claim that using their patronage of the Keep New Zealand Beautiful foundation (Coke is on the board) as a "get out of jail free ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00145.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

The two nations that occupy the island of Hispaniola, the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti, have experienced an alarming surge in drug trafficking traversing their borders en route to North American and European markets. The entire Caribbean region ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00148.htm

Service And Food Workers Union

The Service and Food Workers Union has written to Spotless Services this afternoon offering a way to resolve the two day lockout of its union members. SFWU spokesperson Alastair Duncan says the union has offered to withdraw pending strike notices until ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00156.htm

Opus International Consultants

Opus International Consultants announced today that they have purchased Queensland based engineering and architectural consultancy Group 42 Consulting Ltd.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00269.htm

Automobile Association

The Automobile Association has welcomed the release of the HAPINZ Air Pollution Study as an important contribution to the understanding of the impacts of air pollution in our country.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00266.htm

Global Peace And Justice Auckland

Where: Gather at the corner of Mt Eden Road and Symonds Streets, Auckland When: At 1pm Saturday July 13, before a march to the jail.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00133.htm

ICP Biotechnology

ICP Biotechnology Ltd (ICPbio) has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer, Mr Sanne Melles, who has the desired experience in biopharmaceutical business development to take the company forward.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00264.htm

ITUC

Brussels, 13 July 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) have protested to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the brutal beating and abduction of bus workers' trade union leader Mansour Osanloo in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00191.htm

InternetNZ

InternetNZ (The Internet Society of New Zealand) farewells several of its long-serving Council members this month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00268.htm

Toni Solo

The developing dynamic of events in Latin America through 2007 and into 2008 is very different from 2006, a year noteworthy for its dramatic presidential elections. But the underlying issues driving the dynamic remain unchanged. In its 2007 report on ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00158.htm

Commerce Commission

The Commerce Commission has received the proposal from Telecom covering the non-price terms for Unbundled Bitstream Access (UBA) Standard Terms Determination (STD). Submissions on Telecom's proposals are sought from interested parties. The closing date for these ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00252.htm

New Zealand National Party

News that yet another prison officer has been suspended for alleged corruption is a further wakeup call for a Government that has been in denial over this problem, says National’s Justice and Corrections spokesman, Simon Power.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00221.htm

Auckland University of Technology

AUT University Professor Max Abbott said today that the recently released Ministry of Health report ‘Problem Gambling Intervention Services in New Zealand: 2006 Service-User Statistics’ contains some incredible information that is very good news for the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0707/S00046.htm

The Scoop Editor

Satire: Youth Parliament Broken Up by Police / Gordon Campbell: Zaoui's beliefs / Parliament Creche Skirts System, Reserve Bank Creche Opts Out / Cautious Optimism on Kyoto Two / Health: "Scandal" - Ryall / Affordable GPS Tracking Solution Launched
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00146.htm

Marc Alexander

Its extraordinary how skewed the Left can be in this country. For years the Northern Territory of Australia has been plagued by the most appalling abuses visited upon the aborigines. Rampant sexual child abuse with the accompanying spread of disease;
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00154.htm

New Zealand Government

A new report from the International Energy Agency that says world oil markets may come under increased pressure due to potential supply constraints within the next five years is all the more reason to lessen our dependence on imported oil, Energy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00219.htm

Socialist Alliance

“I completely agree with New Zealand Maori Party MP Hone Harawira that Prime Minister John Howard, by attacking marginalized Aboriginal communities, is a ‘racist bastard’,” Aboriginal leader and Socialist Alliance Indigenous spokesperson Sam Watson said ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00181.htm

David Swanson

Friends, because HR 811 may come up for a vote within the next two weeks,it's most important that you read the following, right through to the shocker at the end.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00156.htm

Michael Collins

Senator David Vitter, the family values politician from Louisiana, admitted that he’d committed “a serious sin” and strayed from his marriage. There are always consequences. Vitter may be sleeping lightly with good reason
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00151.htm

VeriPay

Auckland based company VeriPay Ltd announced today that it has launched an ultra low cost GPS tracking service, VeriFind®. VeriFind® sets a new benchmark in affordability for people wanting to know “on demand” the precise geographic location of a vehicle, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00242.htm

Thistle Hall

“To Japan with love” is an exhibition of over 30 Japan-inspired artworks by local artists that officially opens this Saturday 14 July at the Thistle Hall Community Centre’s gallery, 293 Cuba Street and runs until 21st July.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0707/S00141.htm

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