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NELSON MANDELA HELPED NAME CELINE DION’S TWIN SONS

Canada is so proud of Celine Dion and all she’s done in the world. Hello! Canada gave Dion a 20 page spread with husband Renee, son Rene-Charles and two month old twin boys Eddy and Nelsen. The HuffPo writes words about the singer’s expanding family:

“Dion, who with husband Rene Angelil has a nine-year old son named named Rene-Charles, spent years trying to get pregnant again, going through IVF treatments and suffering a miscarriage. So the couple wanted to give the twins meaningful names. We met with Nelson Mandela and spent some time with him at his house when we started Celine’s world tour,” Rene said. “Eddy is a homage to Eddy Marnay,” said Rene, referring to the songwriter that wrote Dion’s first five albums and died a few years ago.”

Nelsen is of course, Mandela’s namesake.

Cute story.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.8.10~

 
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Posted by horiwood on December 8, 2010 in Babies, Canada, Celine Dion, Nelsen Mandela, South Africa

 

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30 HUMAN RIGHTS ARTICLES OF THE FREE WORLD

Nelsen Mandela’s Key as Art for Human Rights Honorees and Advocates of the World

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – United Nations Website

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Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.  Read the rest of this entry »

 
 

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SOME CROWDED HOUSE AND NELSEN MANDELA – DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.–Nelsen Mandela

Music: Crowded House, Don’t Dream It’s Over

Hollywood rugby pop art: All rugby communities know it’s a long way to that blasted try line. Stay close to each other, create play and reach forward together for a dream. The proven fortitude and new flexibility of teamwork is always the dream.

Artwork: The Key & Bars by Nelsen Mandela

Limited edition lithograph and hand cast numbered metal key

Nelson Mandela is the world’s greatest living statesman and nobel prize winner. He is a symbol of the struggle against apartheid and has now turned his hand to art. This stunning and unique piece symbolises the story of his time spent in prison on Robben Island.

The Key and Bars contains two powerful icons of the 28 years of Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment. His fingers have slowly and deliberately been drawn down the page to recreate the bars of his cell. The Key to his cell has been hand-cast into an edition of just 3000, each numbered and accompany this very powerful edition.

This superb item is personally signed by Nelson Mandela and is supplied framed and glazed, measuring an impressive 23” by 17”.

It is supplied with full certification from the Mandela Foundation.

In the 29th year after a prison of pain, Nelsen Mandela walked to freedom, and the whole world went with him in that place. The irony is, that without pain’s temporal confinement, we don’t know what freedom is. After pain, we then know. That is grief’s gift in the humanness of our shared recovery.


~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.1.10~

 

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RECOVERY IS THE ART OF AMERICAN REDEMPTION

~The way of the wise is to make whoopi Peace~

~Today’s hero is anyone who is actively recovering from a lite affliction or oppression and who has the audacity/ courage to be transparent and honest about it. Hot.~

[Image courtesy of Soccer Live]

For Eminem and Nelson Mandela from ‘Mother Theresa’s bedside 2010Recovery is to make peace with your demons, by calling them what they are without fear of judgement–in order to rebuild lives and better systems that serve more noble purposes for all people into the world–Horiwood, June 2010.

A fairy tale of Peace from World Politics and Hip Hop Music’s King: Once upon a time, one man was locked in a jail because he possessed courage of spirit and his conscience led him to fight death systems that had been created in his own country. Namely, apartheid.

Although this man was deemed an insubordinate criminal with criminal intentions by the finest judges in the land, (he perhaps just couldn’t pretend to be sub enough), he had diamonds on the soles of his shoes as a noble freedom fighter against oppression of his people’s better futures.

When the bullying sickness of greed in his country, had passed–blindness fell off the eyes of his countrymen.

They realized that their nation’s recovery and healing from this glaringly obvious sickness, was to release this man from jail–because in his soul that had endured suffering within an unfair justice system, were all the keys to free his country from a psychological hell guised as an artificial oasis–they had once created to gain an advantage for select few people–while marginalizing a majority.

This man is a man of Peace. His life story mirrors that of Joseph whose life was once cast in ancient Egypt. His name is Nelson Mandela. His life is a witness, that recovery rhetoric–is always a Peace rhetoric and that making Peace is the art of recovery for the world.

Music by Africa Black Mambatu and the dazzling poetic words of Paul Simon today. Commentary on the art of recovery follows:

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NELSEN MANDELA LOSES HIS GREAT GRANDAUGHTER

Nelson Mandela has sadly lost his great-granddaughter, Zenani Mandela who returning from a concert in Soweto to celebrate the opening of the World Cup in South Africa, died in a car accident.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation said Zenani Mandela, 13, died in an accident involving one car. No one else was injured. Sad.

[Source - The Guardian UK]

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.11.2010. ~

 
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Posted by horiwood on June 11, 2010 in Nelsen Mandela

 

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MEET BRAD THORN RUGBY FOOTBALL STAR OF THE NEW ZEALAND ALL BLACKS TEAM

Alrighty then. As you know in Hollywood, we are going rugby football crazy, with the announcement that Clint Eastwood‘s Invictus film, about Nelsen Mandela‘s presidency and the hope that rugby football provided the people of South Africa–just got nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Not a bad scoop.

However, most people don’t know in Hollywood what a real rugby footballer looks like. So, it’s up to Horiwood to edu-ma-cate Los Angeles from the sports profiles of the best rugby football team in the world. That being The All Blacks (a-ha! So Mandela-esque) of New Zealand.

Here’s Brad Thorn. “After initially experimenting as a loose forward, Thorn settled at lock in 2003 and made rapid strides as he developed into a key member of both the Crusaders and All Blacks’ packs.”

That’s rugby football talk for Brad Thorn is super hot on the football field in his position that he plays. To find out more about Thorn, his teammates and the sport of rugby football that is watched by the masses worldwide, go here.

Brad Thorn is as big  a star as Matt Damon, around the world playing for the All Blacks. Enjoy rugby school if you want to surf the net and find out more about the sport. Go Brad Thorn in Hollywood. :)

If you are outside of the USA and have been bitten by the rugby bug and have rugby football fever, like most of the world, then go along and support Clint’s new film at the movies. Directors who bring films that uplift the human spirit deserve to be supported. Go rugby in the world. A great sport!

[Images of Brad Thorn courtesy of Zimbo and Scrum.Com]

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.16.09~

 
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Posted by horiwood on December 17, 2009 in Nelsen Mandela, Rugby, Sports

 

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THE HORIWOOD TOP 10 – TUE 12.15.09

Elin Nodegren said her first words to the press today in the capacity of a mother. Adam Lambert whoops it up at Hotel Angelino and Miranda Kerr turns on a show for Germany’s Christmas cheer. These are your top ten celebrity news posts today in Hollywood.

1. VIDEO FOOTAGE OF ADAM LAMBERT AT HOTEL ANGELENO

2. ELIN NORDEGREN RUNS ERRANDS WITH CHILDREN

3. POETRY for AFRICA: INVICTUS

4. HOLLYWOOD’S 7 LEADING MEN CAST IN STUDIO FILM FRANCHISES 2010s

5. MIRANDA KERR’S MERRY AUSSIE CHRISTMAS FOR GERMANY

6. TAYLOR SWIFT GETS HER RACHEL HUNTER ON

7. ZIGGY MARLEY & OK GO GIVE iTUNES A BOOST

8. LOVE 10 QUOTES: IMAGES KRISTEN STEWART

9. JON AND KATE GOSSELIN: 29th MOST INTERESTING CELEBRITIES IN HOLLYWOOD 2009

10. EVEN AS A BRUNETTE, LADY GAGA REFUSED TO WEAR PANTS 

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.15.09~

 

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POETRY for AFRICA: INVICTUS by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Nelsen Mandela‘s favorite poem by Scotsman William Ernest Henley

Music: Under African Skies, Paul Simon and Miriam Makeba, Graceland Concert South Africa–Bajo los cielos de Africa. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by horiwood on December 13, 2009 in Africa, Freedom, Nelsen Mandela, Poetry, Scotland, South Africa

 

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CELEBRITY BITES – 10.21.09

LaToyaJacksonDancingWithTheStars

La Toya Jackson is a vision of silky blue as she leaves the set of Dancing With The Stars.

Celebrity always does bite, but it is how one uses their fame for the good, that shows a star’s true star power, or whether they are just pretending to be a star. Always give. Celebrity News bites today are as follows:

Hollywood legend, Steven Spielberg has been retained as Creative Director for Universal at $50 million a year. Nice!–Variety

At 16, Miley Cyrus brief appearance in Sex & The City II sparks questions. She loves it.–popeater

Oscar and grammy winner, Jennifer Hudson is in talks to play the role of Winnie Mandlea in a Nelsen Mandela biopic. Great role!–showbiz411

Giving fills Madonna‘s love of more fame with Glee. The hit feel good TV show is doing an entire episode devoted to Madonna songs as Madonna gifts Glee her music royalty rights. Nice!–Music-Mix

Charlize Theron may play Mad Maxine, as Mel Gibsons famous role  gets set for a Mad Max reprise, down under–Sydney Sun.

Kanye West did not die in a car crash as falsely reported. Taylor Swift did not kill him.–Sophos

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~featured pic and charity link is The Joey Parker Movement, see details below after celebrity gossip bites continues. thank you~  Read the rest of this entry »

 

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