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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 23 July 2007

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

1: Nats To Talk With Maori Party Over Foreshore Bill

Agenda

Agenda: National Maori Affairs spokesman, Tau Henare, says the party is willing to talk to the Maori party about the Foreshore and Seabed Bill after the next election.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00286.htm


2: Reducing Transport Emissions: Need To Act Now
Capability Marketing

The growing debate about climate change has emphasised the importance of long term planning if we are to develop sustainable cities, according to a leading transport planner.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00255.htm


3: Community leaders support Voices of Peace
Residents Action Movement
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British MP George Galloway will be speaking against Islamophobia in Auckland on 27-29 July at Voices of Peace meetings hosted by RAM, the Residents Action Movement. (Meeting details below.)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00252.htm


4: Economic Conditions Continue To Fuel Travel Boom
Travel Agents Association of New Zealand

The current economic situation, particularly the high value of the New Zealand dollar, has helped entice a record number of New Zealanders to pack their bags for overseas holidays this winter. The Travel Agents Association of New Zealand (TAANZ) believes ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00411.htm


5: Coal miners’ lockout ends
EPMU

A lockout of more than 200 coal miners at Solid Energy’s Rotowaro mine by contractor HWE Mining has ended after union members unanimously accepted a revised offer from the company this morning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00253.htm


6: Keyboard For The Disabled Wins Global Design Award
Opdo

A unique computer keyboard for the disabled has won its New Zealand designers a coveted gold award at the 2007 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00410.htm


7: Peters Urges Rethink
New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters today expressed his surprise and concern at the appointment of an ex-ACT and Labour MP Ken Shirley as the CEO of the Researched Medicines Industry Association.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00350.htm


8: Health unions using members as political pawns
New Zealand National Party

Unions should not use their members as pawns in some sort of ideological battle to push independent businesses out of the health system, says National’s Health spokesman, Tony Ryall.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00354.htm


9: Observations Of Hand Counted Ballots & Vote 2008
Sheila Parks

Between May 2, 2006 and November 7, 2006, I observed the hand-counting of paper ballots in three elections in two New England states. The purpose of these observations was to gather first-hand data concerning the feasibility, effectiveness and accuracy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00288.htm


10: Act now: Foreshore and Seabed Repeal Bill
Peace Movement Aotearoa

21 July 2007 Act now: Foreshore and Seabed Repeal Bill The Foreshore and Seabed Act (Repeal) Bill [i] is likely to come up for its first reading in parliament on Wednesday, 25 July. Both Labour and National have indicated they will not support the Bill which ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00251.htm


11: Benson-Pope did know about political sacking
New Zealand National Party

National Party Leader John Key says Helen Clark is setting a new low in Ministerial standards if she still retains confidence in David Benson-Pope.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00351.htm


12: High dollar hammers sheep and beef outlook
Meat And Wool New Zealand

The 2007-08 outlook for sheep and beef farmers is grim if the current high exchange rates continue for the next 12 months, Meat & Wool New Zealand Chairman, Mike Petersen says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00409.htm


13: School leavers report shows good progress
New Zealand Government

The 2006 School Leavers Report shows that students are leaving school with more and higher qualifications across school years, NCEA levels and ethnicities, says Education Minister Steve Maharey.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00355.htm


14: Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 21 July 2007
Scoop Daily Ratings

Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00287.htm


15: Still No Response to Lock out Offer
Spotless Services

The SFWU is currently making noise about health and safety in hospitals as a result of its own decision to strike rather than negotiate – yet is still refusing to discuss a health and safety protocol that Spotless has proposed in exchange for lifting ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00254.htm


16: Email Reveals Union’s Real Agenda
Network PR

Email Reveals Union’s Real Agenda and Strike Tactics An email to strike leaders from SFWU Northern Secretary, Jill Ovens, has revealed the agenda of its current strike is to get rid of private contractors from the public health sector. Jill Ovens ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00248.htm


17: Peru: Indians Ask Court To Ban Oil Exploration
Survival International

Peru's Amazon Indian organisation, AIDESEP, has applied to the courts for oil exploration and drilling to be banned in parts of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted tribes.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00284.htm


18: Mandatory's White Label – it's the new black!
Mandatory

Are New Zealand men ready to take their sense of fashion flair to new levels?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0707/S00214.htm


19: Government Funding Set To Combat High Fat Fries
Horticulture NZ

The Government is backing a move by the Chip Group – a collaboration of food and nutrition industry representatives – to make takeaway chips healthier.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0707/S00090.htm


20: Proposals To Bring Rates Rebellion To A Conclusion
Rates Rebellion

Full Text Of Address To Be Given To Auckland Regional Council At 6pm Today With Proposals To Bring Rates Rebellion To A Conclusion
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0411/S00089.htm


21: Stolen Land, Invaded Children and Rugby Union
ImagineNative

Today, Saturday July 21st, at 7.30pm the All Blacks are playing Australia at Eden Park in T�maki Makaurau (Auckland). ImagineNative Action spokesperson Te Kanikani Tangata Hara says "we believe the moral and political background to Aotearoa's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00244.htm


22: Microsoft To Windows Users: Apply Security Patch
Microsoft New Zealand

New Zealand Businesses and Home Consumers Should Download MS-03-026 from Microsoft Web Site Today
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0308/S00031.htm


23: Jamaica: In the Drug Trade—Big and Getting Bigger
Council on Hemispheric Affairs

With a focus primarily placed on notorious Mexican and South American drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), and the Caribbean’s role as an essential transit mechanism for drugs moving north to market, trade issues often are moved around and made to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00283.htm


24: Monitoring Of Maoist Army Personnel To Resume
United Nations

The senior United Nations envoy to Nepal and the leader of the Maoists today agreed on the resumption of the second phase of registration and verification of Maoist army personnel – to ensure that no minors are serving – as soon as possible.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00286.htm


25: Cindy Sheehan to Lead March for Impeachment
David Swanson

March from Arlington National Cemetery to the Capitol Hill Office of Congressman John Conyers to ask him to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney or President George W. Bush or both. Participants hope to meet with Congressman ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00283.htm


26: Former Fiji Broadcasting Boss To Be Queried
Pacific Media Watch

SUVA (RNZI Online/Pacific Media Watch): The former CEO of the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Francis Herman, is expected to be interviewed by the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00287.htm


27: Regional Land Transport strategy gets green light
Environment Bay of Plenty

How will you be travelling to work in 2011? That’s one of the questions asked in the revised Regional Land Transport Strategy, which was adopted by Environment Bay of Plenty recently. The strategy sets realistic targets for increasing people’s ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0707/S00252.htm


28: Brian Carter's The Night Sky
Brian Carter

August is a poor month for viewing the planets. Jupiter and Mars will be visible for all of August. Venus will be visible in the evening sky at the start and in the morning sky at the end of the month. Saturn will be visible in the evening sky for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00276.htm


29: Top Sites June 2007 - Women Aged 25-34
Nielsen NetRatings

Please find attached a website ranking of the top ten channels in Nielsen//NetRatings' Market Intelligence showing the sites that attract the highest percentage of women, aged 25-34, for the month of June 2007. The results show the websites which have ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00388.htm


30: Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 20 July 2007
Scoop Daily Ratings

Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00285.htm

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