Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 15 January 2008

Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 9:44 am
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The Top 30 rating items on Scoop for 15 January, 2008, including: 1: MSD Salaries. 2: Barcode Art. 3: Hillary Vote Rigged. 4: Bailey Junior Kuariki. 5: Housing Unaffordability. 6: Gitmo Prisoners = Non-Persons. 7: Delegate Count. 8: Name That Taste...

Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 15 January 2008

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The Top 30 rating items on Scoop for 15 January, 2008 were...

1: MSD top-band salaries increase more than 546%

New Zealand National Party

The number of Ministry of Social Development staff earning more than $100,000 has ballooned from 54 in 2002 to an incredible 349 in 2007, says National's Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00097.htm

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The “ugly duckling” of packaging – the barcode – is being turned into a swan by a collaborative effort of three organisations who want to encourage designers to incorporate the barcode into their art, as opposed to feeling it is an intrusion.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00079.htm

Michael Carmichael

The mainstream Italian media are reporting both the rigging of the New Hampshire primary for Senator Hillary Clinton and the official demands for a swift, accurate and impartial recount. In an article written by Marcello Foa, one of Europe's most ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00124.htm

Rethinking Crime and Punishment

“Bailey Junior Kuariki is due for release from prison this year. What he now needs is the opportunity to become a useful and productive citizen. Every time the community or the media publicly highlights his offending, or criticises decisions around his ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00083.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says just as new records are being set for unaffordable housing, the worse news is that interest rates are set to remain higher for longer.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00100.htm

Sherwood Ross

It's hard to believe, but the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., just ruled three Muslim British humanitarian workers and a religious pilgrim captured in Afghanistan and detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison, were non-persons!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00125.htm

Scott Galindez

The Associated Press and other media outlets are trying to tell us they know how many delegates each candidate will get out of Iowa, just as I told you they would in a previous article. Florida and Michigan make the delegate count even more confusing.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00126.htm

McDonald's

The winning name was selected from a staggering 76,000 online and text message entries in the NameIt promotion, which asked customers to put a name to the taste of the new McDonald’s burger.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00085.htm

Dylan Packman

I was on board a Air New Zealand flight from New Plymouth to Wellington at 12:30pm yesterday when the kayakers from Australia arrived. The air crew announced the arrival before takeoff and then the pilot took an unusual departure route so that we would ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00110.htm

Lyndon Hood

Though a wit, Michael Cullen / Made some people sullen. / They were grinding their axes / 'Cos he'd not cut their taxes.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00114.htm

Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand would like to clarify for media that there is no agreement in place for Air New Zealand to carry Pacific Blue customers who are stranded by flight delays or cancellations as has happened over the past few weeks.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00094.htm

Business Council for Sustainable Development

The Green Party is the most preferred coalition partner for National or Labour if one gets the first chance to form a government after this year's general election.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00077.htm

LawFuel

www.LawFuel.co.nz - NZ Law Jobs & News - Divorce lawyers call it D-Day: the Monday of the first full week back at work in the new year.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00080.htm

New Zealand Republican Movement

"The Republican Movement welcomes former Prime Minister Mike Moore's call for a constitutional convention" said Lewis Holden, chair of the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00086.htm

New Zealand Police

Police investigating the death of Michael Anthony HUTCHINGS, 18 years of Kaitangata continue with a scientific examination of his residence. Detective Inspector Ross Pinkham says that ESR Forensic Scientists have been assisting the homicide investigation ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0801/S00081.htm

Terry Evans

A further bomb explosion has been reported at Rangoon's railway station, the third bombing incident in three days. According to a reliable source, one woman was slightly injured in the blast.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00082.htm

New Zealand Food Safety Authority

New Zealand Food Safety Authority and the New Zealand Poultry Industry Association have developed a new code of practice (COP) specifically for poultry processing.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00086.htm

Television New Zealand

TVNZ Captioning has achieved its target of captioning over 200 hours of programming each week, an increase of over 300% since 2000. TVNZ Head of Emerging Business, Jason Paris, says that this is a significant achievement for the captioning service.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00093.htm

New Zealand Government

The Labour-led government is already working to ensure biofuels used in New Zealand are from sustainable sources, Energy and Climate Change Minister David Parker said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00099.htm

Surf Lifesaving Northern

Climatech Regional Lifeguards will be back on duty at Omaha Beach after yesterday’s incident involving a three-metre bronze whaler shark biting the lifeguards inflatable rescue boat.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0801/S00072.htm

New Zealand Police

A 52-year-old Dargaville man has had his ride-on lawnmower impounded after he was caught drink driving on the vehicle. A police officer noticed the man driving the lawnmower through Dargaville at 9.30pm last night (Monday January 14).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0801/S00078.htm

Maritime New Zealand

Hon. John Banks QSO, Mayor of Auckland will lead a trade delegation to attend and exhibit at the 103rd China Import and Export Fair in Guangzhou, 15-20 April 2008.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00095.htm

Hays

The New Year is upon us, but what does it hold for the recruitment market? Here specialist recruiter Hays identifies the top ten trends it expects to influence the recruitment market in the year ahead:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00081.htm

Auckland Regional Transport Authority

Music fans heading to Mt Smart Stadium on Friday 18 January to see their favourite local and international acts at the Big Day Out can save time, money and hassle by taking public transport.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0801/S00077.htm

The Scoop Editor

Scoop Satire: Light Verse / Bailey Junior Kuariki / Moore's Call / Sir Ed Day / Natalie Imbruglia / Marilyn Monroe Comeback / Poultry Processing / Global Europe / Wet Darwin Day / Shipbreaking / Coca-Cola / Gitmo Prisoners, Non-Persons / Rigged Vote.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00128.htm

Sentinel

Nearly 40% of seniors surveyed in New Zealand believe their financial position to be worse than five years ago. Fifteen percent said they were significantly worse off in a survey undertaken towards the end of 2007 by 50+ community website www.grownups.co.nz ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00088.htm

Green Party

Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei is delighted New Zealanders right around the country are getting involved in the Green Party Sand Whale Sculpture Challenge.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00093.htm

SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists

A Christchurch man looking out for the best interests of his toddlers must be wondering if he's Patrick McGoohan, of The Prisoner fame, trapped in The Village, says SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0801/S00087.htm

h2go

h2go is at the forefront of a cutting edge multimedia promotional campaign that is taking advantage of New Zealanders’ fascination with photo sharing sites and a resurgence of game show styled programming.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00089.htm

Orcon Internet

Telecommunications provider Orcon last week began the final stage of testing of its unbundled telephone and broadband network in five suburbs around Auckland. As Orcon prepares for the full customer launch of its own network, it has invited a group ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00091.htm

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