TO CHANGE MY SCOOP OPTIONS OR UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST
http://www.scoop.co.nz/myscoop/signin.html
IF YOU HAVE LOST YOUR PASSWORD
http://www.scoop.co.nz/myscoop/newpass.html
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Steve Irwin
I was saddened and shocked to learn today of the death of Steve Irwin. Steve was a great Australian and a great
Australian tourism icon who contributed enormously to our nation.
MONDAY September 11 The Backyardigans - 4.30 PM Kids can't get enough of the Backyardigans, a gang of computer-created
animals who sing and dance their way through musical adventures in their backyards. Now the whole series has been dubbed
into Te reo Maori so it's ...
Six University of Waikato students will receive Adult Learners’ Awards of $1,000 each from Vice-Chancellor Professor Roy
Crawford at a ceremony on 6 September. The Vice-Chancellor’s Adult Learners’ Awards are presented each year during Adult
...
War games and military exercises are now well underway within Iran and its territory. The Iranian Armed Forces—the
Regular Armed Forces and the Revolutionary Guards Corps—began the first stage of massive nationwide war games along
border areas ...
The imminent fifth anniversary of 9/11 provides the proper moment for a good, ol'-fashioned sum-up of the past
half-decade under CheneyBush, especially because so much has happened in the past 12-months:
Entries for the Canterbury, Waikato and Northland regions open on September 1st and other regions will follow shortly.
It appears the US media overlooked one of the great political stories of the year. In what is becoming something of a
pattern, here’s a brief chronology:
Upper Hutt Mayor Wayne Guppy announced today that his Council has lodged a formal objection to the proposal for the
Wellington Regional Council to take over economic development under the umbrella of the Wellington Regional Strategy.
The reasons for ...
The New Zealand Principals’ Federation is delighted with the latest results of the National Education Monitoring Project
(NEMP), released yesterday.
New Zealand multinational resin manufacturer, Nuplex Industries, is rewarding shareholders with a record gross dividend
payout for the full year of 44.4 cents following an 87% lift in audited after tax profit to $62 million for the year
ending June 30 2006. ...
If you think President Bush’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are not about oil, read bestseller “The Sorrows of
Empire” by Chalmers Johnson(Owl Books).
“We need to nurture those who will change the world,” Waikato University School of Education Associate Professor Roger
Moltzen says.
The name of the Office of the Commissioner is to change to Police National Headquarters. Police General Manager of
Public Affairs, Michael Player, says the Office of the Commissioner name has outlived its usefulness.
When Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, invited President Bush to engage in a "direct television debate" a few days
ago, the White House predictably responded by calling the offer "a diversion." But even though this debate will never
happen, ...
A 64% increase in space leased by Government departments since 1999 and a 95% rise in policy and admin staff shows how
bloated the bureaucracy has become, says National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee.
16: Business Briefs
The impact of housing loans; High ranking for business research; International leadership in small business
Welcome to the first in an ongoing series of monthly updates telling you what’s going on here at the NZ Music Industry
Commission. Each month we’ll be clueing you in on some of our projects and activities, as well as bringing you the odd
piece ...
18: Airline security
Following this morning's police action, security at all UK airports has been increased and additional security measures
have been put in place for all flights. With immediate effect, the following arrangements apply to all passengers
starting their journey ...
Emirates Airline has raised the stakes in the fiercely-contested premium traveller segment with the launch of its new
generation lie-flat Business Class seats today.
Please note: A welfare centre has now been set up at Cashmere High School's McCoombes Performing Arts Centre (Barrington
Rd entrance to the school and follow the Civil Defence signs). The Salvation Army is supplying meals to those unable to
get to their ...
Federated Farmers is keen to work with the government on finding ways to solve problems caused by the spread of the
varroa bee mite, said Frank Brenmuhl, chair of Dairy Farmers of New Zealand, the dairy arm of Federated Farmers of New
Zealand.
Threatened by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria,
according to Israeli political and military sources.
The Samoan custom of mea alofa or "lafo" may support the giving of money to chiefs but this can still be turned down
without causing offence, according to a Pacific community spokesman.
Richard Armitage, the former deputy Secretary of State, may be syndicated columnist Robert Novak's primary source who
told him on July 8, 2003, that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA. But that doesn't
change the fact ...
Persistently ticking off the precious seconds in humanity’s “Countdown to Extinction”, the Doomsday Clock of the
Bulletin for Atomic Scientists has advanced to seven minutes of midnight. Yet despite nuclear terror unleashed on Japan,
an arms race of monumental ...
National Party Education spokesman Bill English says parent power forced the Labour Government to back down on its
"loopy" proposal for guidelines on religious instruction in schools.
Dear Jeremy and Barbara, You are both out of your tree, to quote our late David Lange. Anyone who wants to find “dirt”
and badmouth China can easily do this, and anyone who wants to depict China as a modern clean efficient “shiny” nation
can do that ...
At least a score of high Bush Administration officials authorized, and hundreds of U.S. military and other government
employees committed, crimes involving the torture of prisoners captured in the Middle East, published reports and legal
documents indicate.
In response to a police investigation into his actions, embattled MP Taito Phillip Field has denied any criminality,
stating the "[he is] not a crook". Supporters of Mr Field have also come forward. "Taito Phillip Field has been
investigated an entirely, ...
I'm not sure I get Bill Ralston's moment of shame, as breathlessly reported by two Sunday newspapers. During the week,
a Herald on Sunday reporter was pursuing a "news" story on an itinerant Auckland man, whose only conventional news value
appears to ...
ENDS