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 [...]
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NEW YORK TIMES – 11.9.10
Posted: November 9, 2010 in India, New York, NewsTags: India, new IT technology, New York, News
REPLAY HOLLYWOOD – ALL BLACKS HAKA, WHANGAREI BOYS HIGH SCHOOL HAKA FOR SONNY BILL WILLIAMS, SAMUEL WHITELOCK AND RUGBY WORLD CUP 2011
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Entertainment Celebrity News, haka, Leadership, New Zealand, News, Northland, Rugby, Spirit, Sports, Te Reo Rangatira, Teenagers, Whangarei City, World PeaceTags: Auckland - The Super City, Audible Emotions for World Peace, Dame Whina Cooper, haka, Karetu, Leadership, New Zealand, New Zealand is a Minerals Rich Nation, News, Nga Puhi Tonu Nui, Nga Tama Toa, Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Manu, Ngati Whatua, North Auckland, Northland, Rugby, Rugby World Cup, Sid Jackson, Spirit, Sports, Sports Horiwood, Sports Psychology, Te Aupouri, Te Reo Rangatira, Te Taitokerau, Teenagers, Waitangi, Warkworth, Whangarei Boys High School, Whangarei City, World Peace
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 NewsTags: Iceland, World News
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~
KUPE by TE KARERE NEWS
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Art, artist, iMinerels, MaoriTags: Art, artist, Hollywood Maori Kings, iMinerels, Kupe, Maori, Minerals, New Zealand is a Minerals Rich Nation
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~
MEET PARK SEUONG-JOO (CAROL) OF SEOUL KOREA
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Korea, New Zealand, PoliticsTags: Cross-cultural Narratives, Dunedin, Kool Kiwis, Korea, Krazy Kiwis, Michael Woodhouse, New Zealand, Otakau, Park Seuong-Joo, Politics
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~
WAS JAMES BOND, DANIEL CRAIG RESPONSIBLE FOR RACHEL WEISZ SPLIT WITH DARREN ARONOFSKY?
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Daniel Craig, Rachel WeiszTags: Daniel Craig, Darren Aronofsky, Rachel Weisz
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 [...]
CENTRAL PARK IN NEW ZEALAND HAS LAKE TAUPO TO VISIT
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Adventure Tourism, Ireland, Lake Taupo, Maori, Scotland, UKTags: Adventure Tourism, Ireland, Lake Taupo, Maori, Moana and The Tribe, Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Scotland, UK
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 [...]
A STAR SPANGLED BANNER REMINDER by PATTI LABELLE, NONA & MARVIN GAYE
Posted: November 9, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Live Music Artists
HOW A NATIONAL ANTHEM SHOULD BE SUNG by PATTI LABELLE, NONA & MARVIN GAYE.
REWIND ON HALLE BERRY, VOGUE SEPTEMBER
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Halle Berry, Jennifer AnistonTags: Cuisine of The World, Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston
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 RECORD BREAKING MAORI BLOG IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA USA -10.4.10
Posted: November 9, 2010 in America, Entertainment News, Maori, TrendsTags: America, Entertainment News, Maori, Trends
A RECORD BREAKING MAORI BLOG IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA USA -10.4.10.
MADONNA SAYS BULLYING WORKS UNDER A VENEER OF GOSSIP
Posted: November 9, 2010 in David Banda, Ellen, MadonnaTags: David Banda, Ellen, Madonna
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 [...]
ROBERT DOWNEY JR. ON HOW WINNING OSCARS WORKS
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Robert Downey JrTags: Robert Downey Jr
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 [...]
BANGKOK-BORN NATALIE OLSON WANTS TO BE A TV COWGIRL AS THE NEXT MILKY BAR KID
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Casting, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, New ZealandTags: Casting, Child Actors, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hot Chocloate: African American News on Horiwood.Com, Irving Swifty Lazar, Kool Kiwis, Krazy Kiwis, Natalie Olson, New Zealand, Thailand, Thailand Television Service Hollywood
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 CABLE
Posted: November 9, 2010 in America, Conan O'BrienTags: America, Awesome Aussies, Conan O'Brien, Julia Gillard, Seth Rogan
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 UncategorizedTags: Gursharan Kaur
[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. [...]
WHAT’S UP ON THE WASHINGTON POST? 11-9-10
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Washington D.CTags: Washington D.C
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 [...]
ONE NATION WILL UNITE THE RUBGY WORLD, UNDER ONE UMBRELLA OF UNITED STATES OF RUGBY CHAMPIONS
Posted: November 9, 2010 in RugbyTags: Cross-cultural Narratives, Rugby
UNITED STATES OF RUGBY FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS – GATHER UNDER ONE UMBRELLA – FOR RUGBY WORLD CUP.
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – SUN 10.7.10
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Bollywood, Dance, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, India, Miley Cyrus, Music Industry News, Musicals, TeenagersTags: Bollywood, Dance, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hori = Maori, India, Kajol, Live Music Artists, Miley Cyrus, Music Industry News, Musicals, Teenagers, Ten Things Amusing America
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 AND ANGELINA JOLIE WORKING TOGETHER FILM MAKING
Posted: November 9, 2010 in America, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: America, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt
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 [...]
PIANO KIDS – BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE
Posted: November 8, 2010 in Diversity, Michael Jackson, PianoTags: A Diverse View, Diversity, Hot Chocloate: African American News on Horiwood.Com, Live Music Artists, Michael Jackson, Piano
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~
JOHN KEY of NEW ZEALAND ON WHAT AMERICA IS DOING TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WITH INFLATED INJECTIONS OF “CASH”
Posted: November 8, 2010 in America, Economy, John Key, World NewsTags: America, Economy, John Key, World News
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 [...]
“MAORI”-RUSSIAN ART AS A TALKING POINT ON MAORI REPRESENTATION IN THE FUTURE OF 3D ACTION MOVIES CINEMA
Posted: November 8, 2010 in Action Stars, Art, artist, Casting, I have a Dream, Imagination, Innovation, Leadership, Maori, Polynesian, Pop Art, Russia, West Hollywood, WomenTags: Action Stars, Art, artist, Arts & Cultural Opportunities, Casting, Entrepreneurs, I have a Dream, Imagination, Imagine in New Zealand in 3D, In NZ - Brown is the new Black, Indigenous Peoples - United Nations, Indigenous Thinking, Innovation, Leadership, Maori, Polynesian, Polynesian Filmmaking, Pop Art, Pop Culture Commentary, Russia, West Hollywood, Women, Yasmin Bidois
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 [...]
A NEW KISS AT TWILIGHT by BELLA AND EDWARD
Posted: November 8, 2010 in Kristen Stewart, Robert PattinsonTags: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Twilight. New Moon. Breaking Dawn. Eclipse
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~
RUGBY PHOTO – ANDY ELLIS for ALL BLACKS VS ENGLAND
Posted: November 8, 2010 in New Zealand, RugbyTags: Andrew Ellis, New Zealand, New Zealand All Black, Rugby
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 ECONOMY AND SUPERGROWTH -MAORI SCIENTISTS REQUIRED TO MANAGE IWI-OWNED MINERALS RICH RESOURCES KEY NOTES PM JOHN KEY
Posted: November 8, 2010 in China, Economy, iMinerels, India, Leadership, Maori, New Zealand, Politics, Tino RangatiratangaTags: China, Cross-cultural Narratives, Economic Growth Opportunities, Economy, iMinerels, In New Zealand, India, Kaitiakitanga, Languages, Leadership, Maori, Maori Economy, Minerals, New Zealand, New Zealand is a Minerals Rich Nation, Nga Puhi Tonu Nui, Ngati Whatua, Politics, Tino Rangatiratanga, Tukutuku
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 [...]