Archive for January, 2012

At best America is always pieces of a puzzle, fighting for identity across its 50 States. The front cover of the New York Times paints that eclectic battle within US Shores that constantly rages 24-7. Obama Courts India as a deeper ally is the main story, in my opinion. India “emerging” is interesting. Hasn’t it [...]

REPLAY HOLLYWOOD – ALL BLACKS HAKA, WHANGAREI BOYS HIGH SCHOOL HAKA FOR SONNY BILL WILLIAMS, SAMUEL WHITELOCK AND RUGBY WORLD CUP 2011.

ASH FROM AN ICELAND VOLCANO

Posted: November 9, 2010 in Iceland, World News
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The ash from the Iceland volcano Sweeps over Europe. Why when flights are canceled is this crazy plane of camera peeps getting footage? –journalists! They’re a different breed. Their ears are painted on. Watch the clip. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.9.10~

I like this image by Te Karere News from the team’s Maori Mining story, news coverage footage. It says a lot about who we are as Kiwis. I don’t know why, but this image is like food to my Maori-Kiwi soul. Hot. Thanks Tini & Team. Nice pics. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.9.10~

Indonesia’s President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his lovely wife, First Lady Ani Bambang Yudhoyono hosted US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama today. Here’s a brief recap of the short visit from the O’s: On being happy to see the Obama’s touch down in Indonesia: Indonesia was one of Obama’s childhood homes, he’s [...]

Writes MP for Otakau (New Zealand), Michael Woodhouse on Facebook : My support though my week in Seoul, English interpreter Park Seuong-Joo (Carol). “Carol you have a great future in interpreting and diplomacy.” Kia Ora Carol, from Hollywood California. By the sounds of things, nice job! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.9.10~

According to TMZ (the people who broke the Michael Jackson story), Rachel Weisz has called it quits with once beau Darren Aronofsky because she’s been taking her chi’s chi’s over to that James Bond fullah, (Daniel Craig‘s) place instead. Weisz and Aronofsky will continue to raise their four year-old-son together. Being a ‘Bond girl’ must [...]

Click on this picture to discover another world.Visit the beaches of the Coromandel, enjoy the thermal properties of the Bay of Plenty, experience Maori culture in Rotorua, ski in winter and ride the gondolas of Mt Ruapehu, discover a secret world at Waitomo caves with a galaxy of nature’s hidden stars and definitely do some [...]

HOW A NATIONAL ANTHEM SHOULD BE SUNG by PATTI LABELLE, NONA & MARVIN GAYE.

An interesting newsy point. Reports Cover Awards website of The Big Apple: “According to an analysis of newsstand sales, Halle Berry’s September Vogue was trampled by Jennifer Aniston’s Harper’s Bazaar cover. Check out what other September covers flourished and floundered: The Cut Interesting. Berry is gorgeous! Period. And congrats to Jen. Aniston is always more [...]

[A brown owls/ els Parliament Post on Mining: In this video footage from Te Karere, The Maori News, Kelvin Davis of Ngati Manu, Karetu, Bay of Islands has some interesting thoughts to share on Maori and Kiwi mining. He is "no." My thoughts are, minerals are the allusion of wealth (a metaphor of sciences future [...]

A RECORD BREAKING MAORI BLOG IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA USA -10.4.10.

Madonna popped up today on the Ellen Show to talk about teen bullying. When Ellen asked if Madonna talks to her kids about the topic. Madonna had this to offer as parenting tips on the matter: “We talk a lot about the importance of not judging people who are different. Not judging people who don’t [...]

Says Robert Downey Jr tells the UK via Cover Awards: “As long as I stick around, I’m going to end up with a bunch of them anyway as they’re going to run out of people to give them to,” he told GQ Magazine.  “And I’m probably going to win it one year when someone else [...]

India’s President Pratibha Patil and her husband Devisingh Shekhawat, hosted US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, as Patil’s dinner guests are pictured here meeting vice President of India, Mohammad Ansari. Indian News gives the breakdown as follows: “Mamata Banerjee, wrapped in her signature cotton sari, reportedly shook hands with the couple without [...]

So far on Horiwood.Com, we’ve looked at two kids who want to be cowgirls on TV from New Zealand, as the next Milky Bar Kid (The MBK is a Kiwi kids hero for the last 5 decades, who headed a white chocolate gang). I grew up, thinking I was the milky bar kid, like every [...]

Ten Things About Conan O’Brien’s Return To Late Night TV: On launching with a nod to India, a week prior: ” Conan” the show started up a week ago, “with a 3-minute walk-on to new late-night neighbor George Lopez‘s Lopez Tonight Show which “Conan” has bumped to midnight; with an impressive American Express commercial in [...]

PRIME MINISTER SINGH AND PRESIDENT OBAMA’S JOINT TRANSCRIPT

Posted: November 9, 2010 in Uncategorized
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[Image via M&C] Via SunTimes is Singh – Obama, together on the global stage. These two men lead 1.5 million (plus) of their combined citizens they lead and serve. What a transcript in the uniting of two great nations intentions to wing it, work it, and repay debt together. For Immediate Release November 8, 2010. [...]

The big story on The Washington Post, is that President Obama is endorsing India’s place for a UN council seat.  Ridiculous really (India’s late inclusion) since India is 1/6th of the World’s population. Whose been making decisions for who, in the world then, up until now? Craziness. Nice to see India’s PM, Manmohan Singh welcome [...]

UNITED STATES OF RUGBY FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS – GATHER UNDER ONE UMBRELLA – FOR RUGBY WORLD CUP.

Blame it on the boogie, Miley Cyrus shows off her tattoo in Madrid. From India, here’s a taste of a big Bollywood number to get used to. It’s like The Sound of Music goes Bollywood from “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai,” starring Kajol, Shahrukh Khan and stellar Bollywood friends. This movie is almost as old as [...]

Brad Pitt has been a good support on set with Angelina Jolie who is making her first film, Untitled War Love Story. In many ways the couple are reflective of President Bill Clinton and US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and the way they both work, with Mrs Clinton now wearing the ‘official’ leadership hat [...]

A leader is anyone who can help, and who is included to help. At best all leaders serve, regardless of rank, the better of everyone–Rangatiratanga 101. [Image Dame Whina Cooper, a women who marched for all Maori equally. Her efforts started the legal process where Maori were able to get redress. 35 years later, her [...]

Michael Jackson had some pretty diverse fans aye? Watch these two lads tribute on the piano to MJ’s Blame it on the boogie. It gets Groovy at the 2:08 minute mark. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.8.10~

This just in from Radio New Zealand news, John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, comments about America’s penchant to press play on the printing press, injecting cash into the US economy, due to a lack of financial management. The effects around the world, as America devalues its dollar affecting everyone else is a concern [...]

Cute are these Wahine Maori “stacking dolls” via this website. The visual: “Maoriland” goes to Russia. Living in a Jewish-Russian neighborhood (Little Russia) of West Hollywood, California… I’m totally feeling these cross-cultural art-on-wood numbers, due to my daily cross-cultural neighborhood reference. To buy a set go here. Cute. Outside of stereotyping Maori as icons, set [...]

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are in the title roles of Bella and Edward again, for The Twilight Saga. Here’s what their next kiss looks like in Breaking Dawn the next Twilight film that Bill Condon is directing. [Image courtesy of Fame Pictures] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.8.10~

Close up: Ball holder, Andy Ellis of New Zealand runs with the ball during the Investec Challenge match between England and New Zealand at Twickenham Stadium on November 6, 2010 in London, England. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.8.10. Image: Zimbio~

Maori walk on stormy water of a historical legacy of laws (and actions of confiscation and exclusion of Maori) effectively shutting Maori out of equal property ownership and resources. Add to this, the current times of an economic global crises. ‘Miracle Maori’ and ‘Maori-friendly miracle-thinkers’ are needed to set New Zealand up to be competitive [...]