When the sun shines more years than fear when birds fly more miles than anger when sky holds more bird sails more cloud shines more sun than the palms of love carries hate, even then shall I in this weary seventy-year banquet say, Sunwaiter, Birdwaiter, Skywaiter, I have no hunger, remove my plate. –Janet Frame [...]
Archive for January, 2012
WHEN THE SUN SHINES MORE YEARS THAN FEAR – POETRY by JANET FRAME
Posted: December 15, 2011 in Aotearoa New Zealand, Janet Frame, Kool Kiwis, New Zealand, Poetry0
TIME MAGAZINE NAMES PERSON OF THE YEAR 2011
Posted: December 15, 2011 in Democracy, Magazine Covers, Middle East, Public Demonstrations News, Rick Stengel, WomenThe LA Times writes today: “Time magazine has again turned to a concept for its latest person of the year, choosing “The Protester” in recognition of a year in which unhappiness with politics and the economy was given voice in streets around the world, most notably in the Mideast. “Is there a global tipping point for [...]
NEWS SCANDAL – GUYON ESPINER LEAVES TVNZ FOR TV3
Posted: December 15, 2011 in Emma Wehipeihana, Guyon Espiner, Journalists, RomanceHe is the onscreen political conscience of New Zealand journalism. His questions fielded to politicians during televised debates edited the political spotlight to sway public opionion heading into the last election result. He’s one of the view journalists who actually reads entire documents of political rhetoric (ie – new submissions in parliament). He then analyzes [...]
ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S JEWELS SOLD AT AUCTION
Posted: December 14, 2011 in Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Diamonds, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Jewelry, Richard Burton, Star System - The Art of American Celebrity, Star System - The Art of British CelebrityPhoto caption – “On location in Mexico for Night of the Iguana. They bought Casa Kimberly in Puerto Vallarta, where Elizabeth ‘bloomed in hot climates,’ Richard noted. October 1963.” [Kashner/Schoenberger/Gjon Mili/Time Life Pictures -Getty Images via Boundless Obsessions] The most searched for person by 10 to the next closest name today, happens to be Richard [...]
ADVICE FOR PREVENTING RUGBY INJURIES
Posted: December 14, 2011 in Health & Beauty, Health Care, Rugby, UKThis just in from a Dan Carter rugby fan: “Preventing Rugby Injuries -Whether a rugby player is a professional or an amateur, there is little worse than sustaining an injury that puts you out of the game for a few matches, or even worse, your whole career. Because of the nature of the sport, being [...]
Peter Kramer/NBC, via Associated Press Brian Williams interviewed Chelsea Clinton on “Rock Center with Brian Williams” on Monday. Ten People you’ve voted as news right now at 5.25pm KiwiTime are: 1. Rabbi Joshua Hammerman 2. Wendi Murdoch 3. Jerome Kaino 4. Ezra Hōri 5. Emma Roberts 6. The Rock 7. Jonathan Franzen 8. Missy Higgins [...]
ANGELINA JOLIE WINS PRODUCERS GUILD AWARD
Posted: December 14, 2011 in Angelina Jolie, Bosnia, Brad Pitt, Directors, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, India, Industry Town News, SerbiaReuters India reports: “(Reuters) – Hollywood movie producers are honoring Angelina Jolie‘s Bosnia war film “In the Land of Blood and Honey” with a special award for its portrayal of social issues. The Producers Guild of America said on Tuesday that the movie, Jolie’s directing debut which she also wrote and co-produced, would be given [...]
DAVID SHEARER, NEW LABOUR POLITICAL PARTY LEADER OF NEW ZEALAND
Posted: December 14, 2011 in Anuschka Meyer, David Shearer, Grant Robertson, New Zealand, PoliticsSo, David Shearer won the confidence vote of his Labour party to lead in New Zealand. Shearer is now leader of the Labour opposition. [Photo caption - David Shearer at home with his wife, Anuschka Meyer, yesterday after his big win. Photo - Sarah Ivey. Grant Robertson is Shearer's Deputy leader.] Here’s what three of [...]
The city sprawled like a concrete grid as far as the eye could see. As the plane descended to LAX, a little voice inside him said, “Nothing ever prepared you for this. Whatever happens, just go with it.” Harsh white heavy concrete imprinted the imagery of his brain on a tide of nerves and excitement. [...]
SCIENTISTS GO IN SEARCH OF THE “GOD PARTICLE”
Posted: December 14, 2011 in Bruno Mansoulie, Daniel Fournier, Fabiola Gianotti, Guido Tonelli, Leon Lederman, Phsyics, Rolf Heuer, ScienceAFP Science Guest Commentary: “Physicists said on Tuesday that they had narrowed the search for the elusive sub-atomic Higgs boson particle that would confirm the way science describes the Universe. Experiments at Europe’s giant atom smasher have “reduced the window where scientists think they will find the Higgs boson,” also known as the God Particle, [...]
WRITING BEFORE THE ADVENT OF THE INTERNET – TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Posted: December 14, 2011 in Tennessee Williams, WritersIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. — Tennessee Williams ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.12.11~
BLOOD RED POHUTAKAWA
Posted: December 14, 2011 in Aotearoa New Zealand, Hokinga Mai, Hollywood Maori Kings, Literary, MaoriThe nettles of the pohutakawa blossoms bleed red. His bare feet make tracks through the familiar mist-sprayed sands. The waves roar through his ears cutting through the strong easterly winds. A perfect day for sailing. The ocean’s chorus of waves tell him their homecoming stories. Their sounds, like a thousand conch shells’ whispers swirl together [...]
FROM THE HAT – 14.12.11
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Hats, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jones, TrendsA Snapshot of (Selected) Searches that google’s sending this way are: maddie spears. beautiful maori women. jack kerouac. rugby scrum all blacks. nadine chalmers-ross. jennifer lopez kids. keisha castle-hughes 2011 topless (who wrote that?!). luke mcalister thighs. richard kahui 2011. lourdes ciccone. hayden hawke. elizabeth taylor richard burton. green technologies. dame whina cooper. starbuck reserve. [...]
The desire to write grows with writing. — Desiderius Erasmus 14.12.11
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – 14.12.11
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Anna Farris, Casey Aldridge, Cricket, Daniel Carter, David Shearer, Doug Bracewell, Drones Technology, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Gerard Butler, Hockey, Hollywood Entertainment News, Honor Dillon, Horiwood Top 10, Jamie Lynn Spears, Joe Mauer, Julia Gillard, Maddie Bisanz, Magazine Covers, Politics, Ross Taylor, Rugby, Sports, Sports Horiwood, Steven Joyce, World NewsSex symbols of: rugby, hockey, baseball, Hollywood and girls of country music round out our top ten most popular stars today–with a good measure of rock royalty siblings featuring strongly too. As voted worldwide The Horiwood Top Ten today are: 1. Dan Carter & Honor Dillon Wedding Photos – Wedding of The Year 2. Minnesota [...]
WRITING by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Art, artist, W. Somerset Maugham, WritersThere are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham [Quote via WordPress SideBar, with thanks]. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.12.11~
GOOGLE 16 IMAGES – SNAP SHOT OF HORIWOOD.COM 14.12.11
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Alexei Navalny, Google, Lamar Odom, Miley Cyrus, SEOGoogle’s visual profile of Horiwood.Com’s Top 16 image defining moment on the 14th December 2011, looks like this. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.12.11~
FOO FIGHTERS – MUSIC AT 3.59PM KIWITIME
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Foo Fighters, Hollywood Entertainment News, Jack Black, Music Industry News, Rock, Rock N Roll, Rock Stars, Tenacious DLearn to Fly by The Foo Fighters reminds me of how good this band is. They perform in NZ 2nite alongwith Tenacious D (see below) UPDATED – 14.12.11 – Dave Grohl was all about the fine head of moshing hair in concert. How does Dave do it?! See - Photos: Foo Fighters rock Western Springs Here’s [...]
A CLOSER LOOK AT RUSSIA’S MIKHAIL PROKHOROV
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Billionaire HQ on Horiwood.Com, Billionaires, Democracy, Mikhail Prokhorov, Politics, Russia, World NewsMikhail Prokhorov is on our radar today. Photo caption – Mikhail Prokhorov’s challenge is likely to be welcomed by Vladimir Putin. Photograph: mprokhorov.com. Washington Post runs a profile here. Russian tycoon and owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, speaks at a news conference in Moscow to announce his candidacy against Russian Prime Minister [...]
Ten American Companies Who Did Well 2011: Rank Company State Industry Revenue ($mil) Employees 1 Smashburger CO Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure 39.4 67 2 BOKU CA Software & Services 55 40 3 Digital Broadcasting Group NY Media 21.3 45 4 Popchips CA Food, Drinks & Tobacco 45.7 51 5 Implantable Provider Group GA Healthcare [...]
HAROLD SIMMONS OF TEXAS HAD A GOOD 2011
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Arizona, Billionaire HQ on Horiwood.Com, Billionaires, Business Watch, Harold Simmons, Phoenix, TexasShares of Valhi have been a big winner for Texas buyout investor Harold Simmons. The U.S. Billionaire Whose Stock Increased The Most In 2011 For a close up of a winner this year in investment trading take a look. About Valhi: Valhi, Inc is a Delaware corporation that has operations through majority-owned subsidiaries or [...]
POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE – HONORING JANET FRAME
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Asia Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Janet Frame, New Zealand, PoetryThe People Against the grain the people go into dark knots, polished, identifiable, strong, the praised blemish. Within the grain, thin, palely their lives thread the difficult dark-slanted eye of history. Against against within within more secret patterned historic than wood grains flows the blood in people’s veins. Wars rage gales blow tides flow against, [...]
WAIRANGI KOOPU WOULD MAKE A GOOD ACTION MOVIE STAR
Posted: December 13, 2011 in 3D, Action Stars, Actors, Box Office Stars, Boxing, Casting, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Joe Frazier, Maori, Mixed Martial Arts, Movie Ideas, New Zealand, Ta Moko, Wairangi KoopuTrue fact: The most requested search term on Horiwood.Com for 2011 has been “Maori Men Tattoos”. True fact II: Dwayne The Rock Johnson is the 9th most requested star of 2011. That leads me thinking, should rugby leaugue football alum Wairangi Koopu & dudes like him, be training for Mixed Martial Arts action films in [...]
RIA – ALL MY LADIES AROUND DA WORLD … GO AND GET WHAT YOU DESERVE! :)
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Boxing, Christina Koutsimanis, Education, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Entrepreneurs, ICT Systems, Imagination, Information Sharing, Infrastructure Technology, Innovation, Intellectual Property, New Zealand, Science, Science Teachers, Sports, Sports Horiwood, Sports Psychology, Sports Talent Management, Technology, Women, World NewsDreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. — Marsha Norman Ria‘s All My Ladies Lyrics have been a hotly requested favorite on Horiwood.Com for the last two weeks. I was thinking how New Zealand is such a good country for girls to educated in. For women to have children and [...]
“ Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes. ” — Propertius Via Forbes.Com, a website I always struggle to remotely relate to – yet still read occasionally. :) ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.12.11~
FUNNY MAORI TEE SHIRTS + 10 THINGS @ 2.42pm KIWTIME
Posted: December 13, 2011 in 10 Hot Posts Right Now, A Different View, Maori, Tee Shirts10 Posts you’ve selected to peep @ 2.42pm KiwiTime. We are nearing the 4.4 million mark on Horiwood.Com. I think that’s about as many people in New Zealand… so you’ve all done well! Thanks. :) The Ten Posts are: 1. Maori Tee Shirt Humor 2011 2. 10 Reasons why Disney bought Marvel Comics 3. Triathlete [...]
THE KATINAS – SILENT NIGHT
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Katinas, Nashville, Polynesian, Samoa, South Pacific Television Hollywood, Western SamoaIt is what it is. Polynesian Christmas Carols Music. Here’s Silent Night by the infamous Katinas brothers of Western Samoa and Nashville. Not bad! Kinda feels like a Kiwi-Auckland Christmas. Press play to listen. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.12.11~
MINNESOTA TWINS JOE MAUER TO MARRY FRIEND MADDIE BISANZ
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Romance, Sports, America, Entertainment News, Baseball, Florida, Sports Horiwood, Entertainment Distribution, Sports Psychology, Minnesota, Chelsea Cooley, Courtney Craig, Maddie Bisanz, Joe Mauer, Minnesota TwinsJoe Mauer, perhaps contemplating how best to pop the question in July. (Tony Gutierrez / AP) According to Washinton Post Blogger, Cindy Boren: Joe Mauer is engaged; there goes Minnesota’s ‘most eligible bachelor’ Cindy writes: “Joe Mauer, billed as “perhaps” Minnesota’s most eligible bachelor by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, is engaged. This is wonderful news [...]
LOVE AFTER WAR – MR ROBIN THICKE
Posted: December 13, 2011 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Music Industry News, Music Videos, Paula Paton, Robin Thicke, RomanceImagination is much more important than knowledge–Albert Einstein Watch Mr Robin Thicke get all French on it, with this recommended music video clip of the day, Love After War. Thanks Halle M. x If you’ve ever seen Robin live in concert, you’ll know that he’s as American as McDonalds and his response on fans at [...]
