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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For July 14 2010

Thursday, 15 July 2010, 8:56 am
Article: Scoop Daily Ratings

1: SSRIs Render Unfriendly Skies

Evelyn Pringle
The SSRI antidepressant makers are desperate to find new customers, so they recently have been focusing on capturing groups for which the drugs were usually considered off limits. The latest marketing coup managed to open up sales to roughly 614,000 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1007/S00116.htm

2: Hamill returns to Cambodia for Duch verdict

Rob Hamill
13 July Media Release Hamill returns to Cambodia for Duch verdict Kiwi rower Rob Hamill will return to Cambodia at the end of July to hear the verdict in the trial of Comrade Duch, the Khmer Rouge commander of Tuol Sleng prison where Rob’s brother, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1007/S00136.htm

3: MARKET CLOSE: NZ stocks rise; NZOG leads gains

Businesswire
July 14 (Business Desk) – New Zealand stocks rose for their eighth session out of nine, buoyed by global optimism as Intel Corp. reported better-than-expected earnings estimates, stoking hopes for a positive corporate reporting season in the U.S. New ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00422.htm

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4: Omnilab And Oktobor Launch Animation Studio

Oktobor
New Zealand’s largest purpose built CG animation studio AUCKLAND, 14 July 2010 – Omnilab Media and Oktobor, its award winning visual effects, animation and digital creative convergence studio, today gave details of their new Auckland-based Computer ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00410.htm

5: Transfield Services To Construct Broadband Network

Transfield Services
Transfield Services has secured work in the initial phase of the National Broadband Network rollout programme to construct one of the first release sites, marking the beginning of the construction of Australia’s high speed fiberoptic network.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00421.htm

6: Visitbritain Launch New Interactive Travel Website

VisitBritain
Visitbritain Launch New Interactive Travel Website VisitBritain, the national tourism agency, has today launched a ground-breaking new website that gives customers from around the world a unique opportunity to be inspired to come to Britain. VisitBritain.com ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00406.htm

7: Government to reform or repeal Waihopai 3 defence

New Zealand Government
The Government is to either reform or repeal the 'claim of right' defence successfully used by the defendants in the Waihopai sabotage case, Justice Minister Simon Power said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00206.htm

8: National needs a plan, not just a recession

New Zealand Labour Party
The Government can claim no credit for today's official greenhouse gas emissions statistics, which show the first ever reduction in transport sector emissions and a decrease in electricity sector emissions due to less coal-fired generation, Labour's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00218.htm

9: Increase In Kupe Reserves

NZ Oil And Gas
NZOG (New Zealand Oil & Gas Ltd) is pleased to advise that following a detailed reserves review, the initial proved and probable (2P) reserves in the Kupe Field have been increased.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00420.htm

10: Cars Could Be Wasting Fuel Because Of Tyres

AA Media Centre
A survey by the AA has found that 48% of cars could have underinflated tyres, meaning nearly half our private vehicles could be wasting fuel and compromising safety.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1007/S00162.htm

11: NZ's Mutual Finance placed in receivership

Businesswire
July 14 (BusinessDesk) – Mutual Finance has become the latest firm to fall into receivership, with $8 million of deposits covered by the retail deposit guarantee scheme.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00423.htm

12: Daily Press Briefing - July 12

US State Department
Good afternoon again and welcome to the State Department. We just released a statement by the Secretary on the six-month commemoration of the Haiti earthquake and, of course, a few minutes ago had a briefing with USAID Administrator Raj Shah and Counselor ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1007/S00262.htm

13: Brain stimulation enhances recovery from stroke

University of Auckland
University of Auckland researchers have shown for the first time that combining brain stimulation with simple rehabilitation exercises can help people recover arm and hand function several months after a stroke.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1007/S00054.htm

14: Sri Lanka: Degeneration of the Police Department

Asian Human Rights Commission
SSP Angunawala (Rtd) who served the department for thirty six and half years commented on the reasons for the degeneration of the police department in a taped interview given to Janasansadaya, a human rights organization.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1007/S00273.htm

15: New Chinatown Taking Shape In Manukau

Bayleys Realty Group
There has been a strong response from Manukau City’s Chinese community to a new Chinatown complex that is to be established on a high profile site in Ti Rakau Drive in East Tamaki.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00418.htm

16: Education can't be funded on employment outcomes

Tertiary Education Union
Steven Joyce's suggestion this afternoon that tertiary funding should be linked to employment outcomes rather than academic outcomes is a dangerous path to propose. That is the view of TEU national president Dr Tom Ryan.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1007/S00051.htm

17: North Now Announces Further Local Board Candidate

North Now
North Now, the independent North Shore/North Harbour ticket, has announced a further local board candidate for the new Auckland super city.He is Nick Kearney, a commercial and property lawyer who lives at Hillcrest.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1007/S00165.htm

18: India is not a theocracy

Asian Human Rights Commission
Avinash Pandey The Kashmir valley in India has witnessed more than 15 deaths in June alone, all of them caused by Indian security forces firing upon the protesting crowds. These crowds were comprised largely of teenagers pelting stones at the security ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1007/S00242.htm

19: Newmarket Bars Working Together Ahead Of RWC2011

Newmarket Business Association
Fifteen months out from the 2011 Rugby World Cup and a Newmarket Alcohol Accord has been signed between police, liquor licensing inspectors, council officers, the business association, and key Newmarket licensees.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1007/S00167.htm

20: Experience rating to improve workplace safety

New Zealand Government
Businesses will receive discounts and loadings on their ACC workplace levies from 1 April next year to provide stronger incentives to improve workplace safety and to make ACC’s levies fairer, ACC Minister Dr Nick Smith announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00209.htm

21: NZ's Mutual Finance placed in receivership

Businesswire
July 14 (BusinessDesk) – Mutual Finance has become the latest firm to fall into receivership, with $8 million of deposits covered by the retail deposit guarantee scheme.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00424.htm

22: Pacific Islands Roundtable For Nature Conservation

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Pr
The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation calls upon Pacific Island countries to commit to investing in natural solutions to reduce the impacts of environmental and climate change as a matter of urgency.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1007/S00275.htm

23: Budget papers reveal major concerns about student

New Zealand Labour Party
Steven Joyce's package of changes to eligibility for student loans and allowances are likely to disproportionately affect Maori and Pasifika students and successful settlement by new migrants, Labour’s Tertiary Education spokesperson Grant Robertson ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00213.htm

24: Protect police with gun registration

Green Party
The Government should resist pressure from the Police Association to arm frontline police officers, Green Party Police spokesperson Keith Locke said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00205.htm

25: Unique Wine Label Backs Bid To Save The Regent

Silvereye Communications
Unique Wine Label Marks Quartz Reef Winery’s Bid To Save The Regent Theatre Austrian by birth, but a true blue Kiwi at heart, Quartz Reef’s winemaker Rudi Bauer is throwing his weight (and his award winning wines) behind saving Dunedin’s Regent ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1007/S00123.htm

26: Mogul Aims to Get Havelock North On Google

Mogul
Digital marketing company, Mogul, is helping to put Havelock North on the global online map by volunteering to list the town’s businesses on Google Places.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1007/S00159.htm

27: Member's Bill aims to boost Kiwi industry growth

New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand can only control its own future with strong, sustainable local industries and the government needs to ensure we have them, Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00200.htm

28: Annual energy greenhouse gas emissions data

Ministry of Economic Development
Total annual greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector decreased seven percent in 2009 reported the Ministry of Economic Development today. The Ministry released the latest edition of the New Zealand Energy Greenhouse Gas Emissions publication, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00408.htm

29: Not one acre more

The Maori Party
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira says he is seriously looking at drafting a bill to ban the sale of land in Aotearoa to foreigners.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00201.htm

30: Kiwi Jobs Bill Will Stem Loss Of Manufacturing

RMTU
The Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) says stronger local procurement requirements are needed to stop more manufacturing work going overseas, and the union is supporting Clare Curran’s Bill to help achieve this.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00419.htm

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