Today's Top Scoops - January 08, 2008
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LEAD STORY------------
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]
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NZ POLITICS------------
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 >> [1]
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]
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]
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]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
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]
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 >> [1]
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 >> [1]
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 >> [1]
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 >> [1]
ALSO:National - National welcomes Green Acres probe [2] Franchise Watch - Minister of Commerce met franchise Investors [3]
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 >> [1]
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WORLD------------
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]
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]
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]
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COMMENT------------
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 >> [1]
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]
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LIFESTYLE------------
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 >> [1]
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 >> [1]
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 >> [1]
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]
And those were the Top Scoops on this day, January 08, 2008
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