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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 11 November 2007

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1: Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 10 November 2007
Scoop Daily Ratings
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0711/S00184.htm
2: Companies Pull Advertising from Californication
Family First Lobby.
Two companies have responded to the concerns of Family First NZ and other family groups by withdrawing any future advertising from TV3’s offensive and pornographic Californication series.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00186.htm
3: Police go for trial by media
Global Peace And Justice Auckland
The leaking to major media outlets of suppressed evidence from last months so-called anti-terror raids is a deliberate attempt by police to orchestrate a trial by media of those arrested.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00177.htm
4: Family First Disgusted with Ministry of Education
Family First Lobby.
Family First is shocked and disgusted with the actions of the Ministry of Education who knew about allegations of sexual abuse at Hato Paora College but did not instruct the school to contact police.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00188.htm
5: Open Letter to the Climate Action Network
Deforestation Watch
Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing mankind since the last ice age. Naturally, many well meaning NGO’s have grouped together to promote action plans that can help mankind avert this impending disaster. One notable grouping is the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00187.htm
6: Book Launch: Tuahine Sisters of Porangahau
The Maori Party
If I was a singer, I would start today with one of the waiata from Tangihaku, the work created by sisters Rangitunoa and Whirimako Black, along with their mother, Anituatua.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0711/S00206.htm
7: Forum Responds To Requests For Information
New Zealand Government
Climate Change Minister David Parker and Climate Change Leadership Forum chair Stephen Tindall today responded to requests for further information on emissions trading, by a coalition of lobby groups representing intensive energy users.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0711/S00207.htm
8: 142 murderers considered ‘minimum security’
New Zealand National Party
National’s Corrections spokesman Simon Power says revelations that 142 convicted murderers are classified as minimum security prisoners demonstrates Labour’s rhetoric on crime is a joke.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0711/S00208.htm
9: Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 9 November 2007
Scoop Daily Ratings
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0711/S00183.htm
10: Samoan PM launches two Pacific organic projects
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Friday, 9 November 2007, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), CRGA 37, Apia, Samoa - 'Organic agriculture, whether in farming, processing, distribution, or consumption, is to sustain and enhance the health of ecosystems and organism from the smallest ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0711/S00396.htm
11: It’s Looking Good for 2008 says Maori Party
The Maori Party
The Maori Party today is very pleased to learn that the latest Marae Digipoll survey indicates they are well on the way to achieving their aim of taking all seven Maori seats in the 2008 Elections.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0711/S00205.htm
12: Arson Attack At Rangiora Primary School
Living Streets
Police and Fire were called to the Ashgrove Primary School in Rangiora to a suspicious fire at approximately 3:50am.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0711/S00080.htm
13: Maori Party Pleased with Supreme Court Decision
The Maori Party
The Maori Party has today acknowledged the efforts of the New Zealand Maori Council (NZMC), the Federation of Maori Authorities (FOMA) and Tumu Te Heu Heu, Ariki of Ngati Tuwharetoa, in pursuing the case around the justiciability of the Te Arawa ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0711/S00204.htm
14: March Planned in Support of Human Rights Commision
John Boscawen
I am pleased to announce that I have today lodged an application with the Auckland City Council to lead a protest march down Queen Street, Auckland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00185.htm
15: New Zealand Lifestyle Block Mythology
Hugh Pavletich
New Zealand Lifestyle Block Mythology – The Need For Rigorous Research Since the early 1980’s - as forced urban consolidation began to “bite” and the process of artificial urban property inflation got underway – as part of the “flight ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00183.htm
16: Brand-new equipped house - $80,000?
Otago Polytech
Here’s a brain teaser. What kind of educational project both starts and ends with a hammer?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0711/S00083.htm
17: Walkable Cities To Combat Obesity
Living Streets
“Newly elected members must fight the obesity epidemic on the streets of our cities!” says Celia Wade-Brown. Ms Wade-Brown has just been re-elected as President of Living Streets Aotearoa and enters her fifth term as a city councillor. A landmark report ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0711/S00079.htm
18: Takeovers Panel Finds Parties Have Not Complied
Takeovers Panel
The Takeovers Panel held a meeting in Auckland on 7 November 2007 to consider a number of matters raised in a complaint to the Panel relating to Kerifresh Limited. This follows an earlier meeting of the Panel held on 16 October 2007.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0711/S00195.htm
19: Silver Ferns open world champs with big win
Netball NZ
Power, pace and finishing were all on show as the Silver Ferns cruised to an 85-26 win over Malawi in the opening match of the New World Netball World Championships at The Trusts Stadium, in Auckland tonight.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0711/S00140.htm
20: The Outlook for Someday
Connected Media Trust
Insightful, opinionated, original and thoughtful young film-makers entered films for the inaugural The Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge for young New Zealanders.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0711/S00139.htm
21: New Editor for The Press
Fairfax
Mr Holden is currently deputy editor of the newspaper. He replaces Paul Thompson, who has been appointed group executive editor of Fairfax Media.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0711/S00196.htm
22: Transit Wqarns Of Overnight Road Closures
Transit New Zealand
Transit would like to advise motorists it will be carrying out specialised road surfacing work to a section of the northbound lanes on SH1 at the top of Ngauranga Gorge from Sunday night.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0711/S00082.htm
23: Use Statistics NZ Staff Escalate Industrial Action
PSA
Field interviewers have stopped sending information on price changes used to compile the Food Price Index (FPI) and the Cost Post Index (CPI).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00182.htm
24: New Curriculum, New Minister, Same Flawed System
Libertarianz Party
Libertarianz Party Education Spokesman Phil Howison today welcomed Chris Carter as the new Minister of Education, and offered three suggestions for Carter to improve New Zealand schools. "With a new minister and a new curriculum, this is a great ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00184.htm
25: Rural communities at heart of agriculture research
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Friday, 9 November 2007, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), CRGA 37, Apia, Samoa – Putting rural communities in the driver’s seat of agricultural research and extension is clearly what the EU-funded Development of Sustainable Agriculture ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0711/S00395.htm
26: Media Moronry in Wannabe Terrorists' Let-Off
Solo New Zealand
The media and the rest of the nation's Political Correctness Nazis are undulating in a feeding frenzy of phony indignation about hurt feelings and damaged relationships in the wake of the Solicitor-General's finding that the wannabe terrorists can't ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00179.htm
27: Avoid gathering food from the Ruahapia Stream
Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s medical officer of health, Dr Caroline McElnay has issued a public health warning advising members of the public to avoid taking any food from the Ruahapia Stream (Near the Showgrounds /Ellwood Road area) downstream ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0711/S00081.htm
28: SFWU Groundstaff Negotiations Update
Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand has issued lockout notices to the SFWU over bargaining for a new Collective Employment Agreement. The notices affect approximately 145 of Air New Zealand's 3300 groundstaff, predominantly at Auckland International Airport and Cargo.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0711/S00194.htm
29: Mint Shot: It Pays To Watch
mintshot.co.nz
It pays to watch … and that’s exactly what Marc Ellis and the mintshot.co.nz team wants you to do when they launch their new entertainment website www.mintshot.co.nz on Monday 12th November.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0711/S00017.htm
30: 95th Commemoration of unionist killed by NZ police
National Distribution Union
While debate surrounding the Terrorism Suppression Act continues, unionists and activists will remember the life of an unionists murdered 95 years ago by police and the strike breakers they employed, says the National Distribution Union.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0711/S00180.htm
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