Today's Top Scoops - January 08, 2008
Scoop Satire: Mother Scoop's Almanac
Scoop
Police and Crime: Nearly 6,000 Suspended Drivers Still
On Roads
Scoop
Child and Youth Issues: Work-Life Balance Important For
All Families
Legal
Issues: Labour Slammed Again For Political
Interference
Health
Policy: ACC Should Not Be Intimidated
Computing
and Internet: Google Car Putting Warrington On The
Map?
Police
and Crime: New Year Brings Freedom For Suffering
Hens
Scoop
NZ World News: NZ Education Research 'Smartest In The
World'
Transport:
2007 New Vehicle Sales Just Short Of 2005 Record
Scoop
Commerce: Minister To Confer With Industry On Franchise
Risk
Scoop
Science: Nobel Laureate To Give New Zealand
Lectures
Ban
Ki-moon: 2008 Should Be The Year Of The 'Bottom
Billion'
Pentagon:
Iranian Boats Provoke 'Serious Incident' in Straits of
Hormuz
Marine
Life: Atlantic Offshore Lobsterman To Host "Whale
Friendlier Lobster Gear" Summit
J.
Buchanan: Bringing The Gulf Coast To The
Debate
Toni
Solo: Varieties Of Imperial Decline - Rearguard Success,
Strategic Defeat
General
Politics: THCAPOHCTMAHYL - The Play Arrives At
Bats
Sport:
Speight'S Coast To Coast Back And Better Than Ever
Scoop
Art and Entertainment: Nick Harte: Shocking
Pinks
Strange
and Bizarre: Mystery Girl & Cheese On Toast Present
Andrew
Bird
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LEAD STORY
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Scoop Satire: Mother Scoop's Almanac -
Scoop's Lyndon Hood presents, only slightly late, extracts
from his predictions for the new year - two of which have
already come half true.
The most comprehensive, precise and accurate list of predictions that the author is aware of, the complete volume also contains much information of use to gardeners. More >> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00038.htm
NZ POLITICS
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Scoop
Police and Crime: Nearly 6,000 Suspended Drivers Still
On Roads - National Party Police spokesman Chester
Borrows says nearly 6,000 suspended drivers are still on
Kiwi roads because no-one's got around to serving them with
the paperwork to revoke their licenses. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00037.htm
Scoop
Child and Youth Issues: Work-Life Balance Important For
All Families - Child Poverty Action Group welcomes
the independently published study Improving Work-Life
Balance for Domestic Purposes Beneficiary Sole Parent
Families researched by the Rotorua People's Advocacy Centre.
More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Greens - Greens welcome report, condemn interference [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00038.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00028.htm
Legal
Issues: Labour Slammed Again For Political
Interference - National Party State Services
spokesman Gerry Brownlee says senior Labour Ministers face
fresh claims of heavying appointed officials and trying to
influence the outcome of a supposedly independent
decision-making process. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00030.htm
Health
Policy: ACC Should Not Be Intimidated - National
Party ACC spokeswoman Pansy Wong believes fair-minded New
Zealanders will resent having to pay for cosmetic surgery
for a burglar whose ear was bitten by a police dog during an
arrest. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- National - ACC Minister needs to front up [2]
- SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists - Memo to Crim-Scum--Nanny State Luvs Ya! [3]
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00025.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00033.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00034.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Computing
and Internet: Google Car Putting Warrington On The
Map? - A small car was spotted in Warrington today,
apparently driving around all the streets in turn. The car
displayed prominent ''Google'' logos on each side and had a
tripod on the roof with a shiny black round object on top.
More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Out-link - Check out the Immersive Media street-scanning car - Engadget [2]
- Out-link - Google Street View: was this one of Google's vehicles? - Boing Boing [3]
- Out-link - Warrington on Google Maps [4]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0801/S00016.htm
[2]
- http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/check-out-the-immersive-media-street-scanning-car/
[3]
- http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/01/google-street-view-w.html
[4]
- http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=warrington+new+zealand&ie=UTF8&ll=-45.709056,170.591583&spn=0.072642,0.152092&z=13&iwloc=addr&om=1
Police
and Crime: New Year Brings Freedom For Suffering
Hens - On New Years Eve while many were partying
Animal Rights Activists were seeing in the New Year by
entering a battery hen farm in South Auckland. Thirty hens
were rescued from this farm and the conditions documented.
More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00037.htm
Scoop
NZ World News: NZ Education Research 'Smartest In The
World' - A leading Canadian educationalist has
hailed the Ministry of Education-funded Best Evidence
Synthesis (BES) programme as 'state-of-the art' saying
no-one else in the world is doing work as good. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0801/S00004.htm
Transport:
2007 New Vehicle Sales Just Short Of 2005 Record -
New vehicle sales for the full year 2007 reached 102,468
(77,454 cars and 25,014 commercial vehicles), just 980 units
(1.0%) behind the 16 year record set in 2005. Fourth quarter
sales of 26,276 new vehicles (4.6% ahead of the same period
in the ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00022.htm
Scoop
Commerce: Minister To Confer With Industry On Franchise
Risk - Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel met today to
hear directly from victims of an alleged fraud involving the
selling of bogus ironing franchises in Auckland. The
government will work with the New Zealand Franchise
Association to look at whether there is ... More
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ALSO:
- National - National welcomes Green Acres probe [2]
- Franchise Watch - Minister of Commerce met franchise Investors [3]
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00035.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00036.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00017.htm
Scoop
Science: Nobel Laureate To Give New Zealand
Lectures - Physicist, author, ghost-buster and 2004
Nobel prizewinner Frank Wilczek will explore the mysteries
of the Universe at lectures in Palmerston North and Auckland
next week. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0801/S00004.htm
WORLD
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Ban
Ki-moon: 2008 Should Be The Year Of The 'Bottom
Billion' - Ban Ki-moon today stressed that 2008
should be the year of the "bottom billion," citing the need
for renewed determination to address the needs of the
poorest of the world's poor who have been left behind by
global economic growth. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0801/S00082.htm
Pentagon:
Iranian Boats Provoke 'Serious Incident' in Straits of
Hormuz - Three U.S. Navy vessels took evasive
actions after five Iranian boats buzzed the ships transiting
the Straits of Hormuz yesterday, Pentagon spokesman Bryan
Whitman said today. "Small, Iranian fast boats made some
aggressive maneuvers against our vessels and indicated some
hostile intent." More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- AFPS - Admiral Details Iranian Challenge To U.S. Ships [2]
- State Dept - US State Dept Daily Press Briefing: Jan 07, 2008 [3]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0801/S00075.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0801/S00088.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0801/S00086.htm
Marine
Life: Atlantic Offshore Lobsterman To Host "Whale
Friendlier Lobster Gear" Summit - "Saving the right
whale requires collaboration and shared commitment. Nearly
3/4 of endangered right whales have scars from entanglement
in fishing gear; it remains one of the biggest threats to
the survival of the species." More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0801/S00079.htm
COMMENT
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J.
Buchanan: Bringing The Gulf Coast To The Debate
- This Presidential Primary season, voters have listened to
nearly a half a million words from two dozen Presidential
candidates in 25 debates. Debate moderators have avoided
asking what each candidate as President will do to rebuild
New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, where communities are still
fighting to come back more than two years after Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita and the levee failures. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00048.htm
Toni
Solo: Varieties Of Imperial Decline - Rearguard Success,
Strategic Defeat - The emerging pattern of struggle
for the region's peoples will be much the same as it has
been for 500 years - fighting to ensure their countries'
enormous natural resources benefit themselves and their
children rather than people on the far side of the world.More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00052.htm
LIFESTYLE
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General
Politics: THCAPOHCTMAHYL - The Play Arrives At
Bats - On The Conditions and Possibilities... is the
first state-of-the-nation address for the Rogernomic
generation - a punky powerpoint-driven monologue exploring
obsession, politics and the hopes and dreams of a passionate
but confused generation. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0801/S00026.htm
Sport:
Speight'S Coast To Coast Back And Better Than Ever -
The Speight's Coast to Coast is taking place again on the
8th and 9th of February 2008. In its 26th year and with over
730 competitors registered so far, this is set to be one of
the biggest races yet. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0801/S00025.htm
Scoop
Art and Entertainment: Nick Harte: Shocking
Pinks - Shocking Pinks is the solo recording project
of Christchurch's reclusive Nick Harte. Having released 3
albums in NZ, 2 of which were on NZ's legendary Flying Nun
label, Shocking Pinks have now inked a 4 album contract with
New York based DFA records, ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0801/S00023.htm
Strange
and Bizarre: Mystery Girl & Cheese On Toast Present
Andrew Bird - Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist
and lyricist Andrew Bird picked up his first violin at the
age of 4. Actually, it was a Cracker Jack box with a ruler
taped to it, and the first of his many Suzuki music lessons
involved simply bowing to the ... More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0801/S00016.htm
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