Hard News is like the film noir, of newsroom headlines. Will it work in today’s news market? According to KOSU News Business. NBC anchor Brian Williams wants to return to a 20 years-ago news tradition. He wants to launch a new network TV newsmagazine. “Hosted live from NBC’s Rockefeller Center headquarters — thus the [...]
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Kelvin Davis is all smiles on the Kiwi election trail. [Photo courtesy of NZH]. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 1.11.11~
If you wish to find the spark in our life, look in the ashes. –Fred England, Auschwitz and Siegmer-Schoenau survivor. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 1.11.11~
RYSZARD HOROWITZ REMINDS US WHY YOUTH MATTER
Posted: October 31, 2011 in Children, Human Rights, Life, Oskar Schindler, World History, World News, World Peace, Youth, Youth WorkersOne day, one man valued an oppressed and marginalized people more than his own personal material possessions, or status quo position. This blog post is about valuing lives of others. Life is what is important–Ryszard Horowitz, international award winning photo composer & survivor of Auschwitz. Ryszard is the youngest member of Oskar Schindler‘s List. What [...]
BERNIE MADOFF’S FAMILY TAKE THE NO.1 NEWS STORY TODAY – 1.11.11
Posted: October 31, 2011 in Bernie Madoff, Kim KardashianCrime, punishment, and the shame of being a Madoff. According to CBS News. “For the first time since Bernie Madoff’s arrest, his son Andrew and wife Ruth speak out about crime, punishment and the shame of being a Madoff. Morley Safer: It’s a tough name to live with. Ruth: Of course I feel the shame. [...]
SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT by SPLIT ENZ
Posted: October 31, 2011 in Kiwi Pop, Music Industry News, Neil Finn, Retro Hotness, Split Enz, Tim FinnListening to some classic Kiwi music from Split Enz, reminds me that in my hometown, we used to dance to punk rock themed school socials (dances) to this song, Six Months in A Leaky Boat. Many of us, used to swap our farm gum boots for Doc Martins and head from the farm to the [...]
KIM KARDASHIAN FILES FOR DIVORCE
Posted: October 31, 2011 in Kim Kardashian, Kris Humphries, Reality TV Stars, SplitsvilleAccording to Stuff.Co.NZ and PerezHilton.Com , America’s leading reality TV star, Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce after a fairytale $10million wedding to basketball player Kris Humphries, citing “irreconcilable differences” Kardashian today released a statement confirming the divorce. “After careful consideration, I have decided to end my marriage,” she said. “I hope everyone understands this [...]
INNOVATION IS ABOUT BELIEVING IN MIRACLES by ALBERT EINSTEIN
Posted: October 31, 2011 in Albert Einstein, Innovation, WisdomThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle–Albert Einstein. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 1.11.11~
Singer Gala Haywood sings November. This weekend Gala sung a famous Split Enz duet, with I Hope I Never. Talented. Loved it! If you’re 18 in NZ and not yet enrolled to vote – do so! If you’re enrolled to vote, rock out on polling day and make your vote count the way you think [...]
Who were the Kiwis I most admired this week? I’d have to say all of the people on the East Coast cleaning up toxic mess. The people fixing gas pipeline leaks. The Fonterra farmers and Kiwi artists singing at the concerts for New Zealand communities. Wow! Blind cook stories on the TV are also amazing. [...]
PITA SHARPLES AND HONE HARAWIRA – SHOULD SOE’s REMAIN IN KIWI HANDS?
Posted: October 30, 2011 in New Zealand, PoliticsIn Kiwi politics today, Derek Cheng reports: “A minimum wage of $16 an hour, an iwi veto on foreign investment, and a policy for state assets to remain New Zealand-owned are among the Maori Party’s wishlist this election. The party’s election manifesto, released at the weekend, includes many policies from 2008 such as superannuation from [...]
Miriama Kamo talked polygamy on TV with the Mitt Romney story that has swept the USA. America is obsessed with Mit Romney as a potential American Presidential candidate. He descends from a polygamist. He is also Morman. When I think of Polygamy, I think of politics with an over-dominant leader who expects all other political [...]
RETRO BRITNEY SPEARS – TOXIC LYRICS
Posted: October 30, 2011 in Britney Spears, Retro Hotness, Retrospective BillsGlobal markets can be toxic. You can put in. And you can get nada or little back, except a heart attack or heart ache. However, how can we be less toxic (or toxins addicted) to learn from our mistakes, losses, shared experiences? Here’s Britney Spears retro hit, with that vibe of a bad break up. [...]
REGIONALIZED ELECTRICITY COMPANIES IN NEW ZEALAND
Posted: October 30, 2011 in Electricity, Energy, EngineersI couldn’t help but notice and admire, during the Fonterra Kiwi Day Out festival, the Northland farming family that were featured in the TV show version of the event, who have built their own lake on their farms that can generate their own electricity. This family is a self-sufficient Kiwi unit. If they could just [...]
HOW TO STEAL A POWER STATION – TAKE A PHOTO, SELL HALF BACK TO ITS TRUE OWNERS
Posted: October 30, 2011 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsIn what’s Sup Lier News: A photo is taken of a power station. Using the photo, one man is chosen, to then lie and say that he will sell the power station back to its owners. Not only do the actual owners have to buy it back from the man mistaken that him and his [...]
National Grid Doesn’t Know When Power Will Be Restored. Patch.com. By Bryan McGonigle. “In the aftermath of this weekend’s snowstorm, 80 percent of Chelmsford homes are still without power, and National Grid said they have crews out in full force trying to restore it. But there is still no time estimate of when power can [...]
Many Kiwis are asking if it’s wise to sell State Owned energy assets today. My answer is no. As we lose our bank that pays the bills, if we do. I think rich people should sell their own assets, not those of the poors, that aren’t theirs. Best Comments: Kelvin Davis, saying “Crikey! heck [...]
Footage from Yesterday. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.10.11~
The Schindler escalators at the library when I was looking for my Hone Tuwhare book of poems reminded me of Oskar Schindler. The man who stopped children’s hair from being turned into hair brushes, or their flesh into soap in an Auschwitz concentration camp, worse then child sweat shop conditions. Haven’t we come a long [...]
Yesterday, Fonterra threw a party for New Zealand communities. Jason Kerrison was on board for the dairy giant. Here’s One Day. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.10.11~
In New Zealand, we’re big on our rugby league football team. The game moves a lot quicker than rugby football, for example. It’s not as over-reffed. Our league team is called The Warriors. Romance struck yesterday for the team, when Roseanne Hogan arrived for her wedding to Warrior Brett Seymour. Gypsy styles. Read it here. [...]
Little Piggy Porker Fell into the water– Who pulled him out again? Jill the farmer’s daughter. – – – Here comes the mountain hawk– Run, run, run! Who’ll get the rifle out? Jack the farmer’s son. –James K. Baxter, The Tree House and Other Poems. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.10.11~
WORLD SERIES MVP, DAVID FREESE – AND PUMPKIN SEEDS HOLDINGS
Posted: October 30, 2011 in Baseball, David Freese, Energy, Entertainment Celebrity NewsToday, I awoke thinking how much a gift daylight savings is to saving the planet. It preserves the planet of wasted energy assets sales, and also just wasted energy. Opening the windows, to let the sunlight in, I wonder if I should sell off my CL & P & United Illuminate Energy shares too. Then, [...]
On the last day of October, Jerome Kaino, can do no wrong. No.1 most voted Kiwi star today.:) ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.10.11~
THE HARMONIOUS ENERGY OF MAORI YOUTH IN SONG IS VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY COOL
Posted: October 29, 2011 in Adriana Lima, Maori Television Service - Hollywood, New Zealand, Te Reo RangatiraA nation is only as strong as to how we look after our youth and our elderly peoples. Maori Youth singing… There’s nothing quite like their harmonious energy in full song. Wow! Makes you feel proud to be a Kiwi. Here’s the Maori News this weekend. [On a record blog day for the month. Thanks [...]
KIWI HUMOR – THE ROBOT THAT WAS PUT TO THE TEST, CLOSE UP – 28.10.11
Posted: October 29, 2011 in HumorOnce upon a time, a robot came to New Zealand. For a good laugh. Go here. It reminded me a bit of something Weta Workshops would create, on the set of a Peter Jackson film. No! Not The Hobbit but from Forgotten Silver to feature in “the film within the film” of that film starring [...]
IN RED AND GREEN – STEPHEN DONALD VISITS HIS HOMETOWN OF WAIUKU
Posted: October 29, 2011 in Clare Garvey, Community, Emma Bennett, Hannah Bennett, New Zealand, Rugby, Sam Campbell, Sports, Stephen Donald, WaiukuYour hometown is an important place. New Zealand hometowns are always about grass-roots, close community ties. It’s about the hood. Recent rugby world cup champion of the world, Stephen Donald (aka Beaver) returned to his hometown of Waiuku, to give his peeps a thank you and a big shout out. [Photo caption - Stephen Donald [...]
Who doesn’t respect everything that single parents go through? It’s an important job raising a nation’s children. With that thought in mind: Oprah To Single Moms: ‘You Are Enough!’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/28/oprah-to-single-moms_n_1063856.html Comments (631) | Black Voices Video ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 29.10.11~
