Humility is to know your limits with your strengths. The exciting blend of both is visionary wisdom in full technicolor.
Around the World Audience Views News – Horiwoodblog - 6th November 2012.
Norway News: Pivotal Book: 2052 author on climate change, global warming, air quality & rich upper-middle class industrialized nations to lose privileged brat ‘tudes. A must read: This is as good as it gets, says visionary Norwegian authorJorgen Randers.
2052, the book, is a global forecast for the next 40 years.
Germany: e-commerce tax effort (UK-Germany), Social spending planned as a pre-election sweetener, The Luther Fest marks 500th year of The Reformation (the printing press’ role in furthering democracy & the amazing man whose friends kidnapped him to keep him alive, and whose writings sparked a revolution). Catholics aren’t entirely happy at Merkel‘s politicization of it.
In Hollywood Kristen Stewart arrives at Jay Leno’s studio. Photo: X17 Online.
Photo caption: Dutch Queen Beatrix, center, Prime Minister Mark Rutte, center left, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Lodewijk Asscher, center right, pose with other ministers of the new Dutch government on the steps of Royal palace Huis Ten Bosch after their inauguration ceremony in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday Nov. 5, 2012. (AP Photo – Boston - Peter Dejong).
Russia: Show Tunes and Sinatra, With a Russian Accent. Vladimir Putin fired Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, replacing him with Sergei Shoigu, a former emergencies minister – briefly a governor of the Moscow region. His role is to modernize Russia’s military.–Reuters.
Culture: A view of Maori culture of New Zealand. Maintaining The Standard of the source of the Maori haka. Source: Te Karere News.
Snapshot 1: Horiwoodblog website’s hard data rankings of daily audience views. Photo 1: Sir Peter Buck, global Maori-Kiwi, early 1900′s. Image: Te Papa Museum, Wellington New Zealand. Photo 2: Norwegian author (2052): Jorgen Randers - a Luis Ascui photograph.
About The Book2052: Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop-either through catastrophic “overshoot and collapse”-or through well-managed “peak and decline.”
So, where are we now? And what does our future look like? In the book 2052, Jorgen Randers, one of the co-authors of Limits to Growth, issues a progress report and makes a forecast for the next forty years. To do this, he asked dozens of experts to weigh in with their best predictions on how our economies, energy supplies, natural resources, climate, food, fisheries, militaries, political divisions, cities, psyches, and more will take shape in the coming decades. He then synthesized those scenarios into a global forecast of life as we will most likely know it in the years ahead.
The good news: we will see impressive advances in resource efficiency, and an increasing focus on human well-being rather than on per capita income growth. But this change might not come as we expect. Future growth in population and GDP, for instance, will be constrained in surprising ways-by rapid fertility decline as result of increased urbanization, productivity decline as a result of social unrest, and continuing poverty among the poorest 2 billion world citizens. Runaway global warming, too, is likely.
So, how do we prepare for the years ahead? With heart, fact, and wisdom, Randers guides us along a realistic path into the future and discusses what readers can do to ensure a better life for themselves and their children during the increasing turmoil of the next forty years.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.11.12~
Photo caption: The first official photo of the new American Idol judging panel, featuring Mariah Carey, Whangarei City’s home boy Keith Urban, Ryan Seacrest, Nicki Minaj and Randy Jackson. Picture: Fox.
Hindsight is a something we can learn from. Here’s ABC’s Terry Moran on why Air France Flight 447′s crash could have been averted.
ABC reports: “The Air France Flight 447 crash, considered one of the worst aviation disasters in history, could have been avoided, a top-ranking aviation safety expert said.
“Absolutely, this accident didn’t have to happen,” said William Voss, the president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation.
BEA, the French government’s official accident investigators, conducted a three-year investigation into the crash, which killed all 228 people on board, including one married couple from Louisiana, when the Airbus A330 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil in 2009.”
Again, hindsight is such a good teacher for the wider industry of pilots. What about: Air Greece, Air Spain and Air Italia?
The findings:”According to the report, a speed sensor on board the plane, called a pitot tube, stopped functioning after becoming clogged with ice at high-altitude while the plane was flying through a thunderstorm. This caused the auto-pilot to disengage and shift the controls back to the pilots. While flying in heavy turbulence, the pilots failed to properly diagnose the severity of the problem because the pitot tube, a critical piece of equipment to the aircraft, was sending inaccurate data to the cockpit, the report said. The pilots put the plane into a devastating stall and it fell rapidly from the sky, before pancake-ing into the ocean.”
Incidentally, Saudi Arabia has the biggest airport – the same area as New York City. With Atlantic’s airport being ultra busy on Christmas, Thanksgiving and major holidays.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 7.7.12~
Superbowl 2012 – Indianapolis Update: Jan 1, 2012 – After 17 weeks the 32 teams that were in the running to play in Super XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium have been paired down by NFL to 12 teams. It’s now known who will play who (and when) during NFL Wild Card Weekend:
Saturday, Jan. 7
AFC: No. 6 Cincinnati Bengals (9-7) at No. 3 Houston Texans (10-6), 4:30 p.m. ET (NBC)
NFC: No. 6 Detroit Lions (10-6) at No. 3 New Orleans Saints (13-3), 8 p.m. ET (NBC)
Sunday, Jan. 8
NFC: No. 5 Atlanta Falcons (10-6) at New York Giants (9-7), 1 p.m. ET (FOX)
AFC: No. 5 Pittsburgh Steelers (12-4) at No. 4 Denver Broncos (8-8), 4:30 p.m. ET (CBS)
Indiana SBNation.Com writes: “[Above] is the schedule for the wild card weekend. New England and Green bay earned home field advantage throughout the playoffs, while San Francisco and Baltimore each earned first round byes. As the No. 1 seeds, New England and Green Bay will play the lowest remaining seed in their conferences after the wild card round. Green Bay’s game will be played on the Sunday of divisional weekend along with Baltimore’s, while New England and San Francisco will play on the Saturday of divisional weekend.”
In addition to wild-card games, the NFL also released the schedule for divisional games:
Saturday, Jan. 14
NFC: Highest remaining NFC seed at No. 2 San Francisco 49ers (13-3), 4:30 p.m, ET (FOX)
AFC: Lowest remaining AFC seed at No. 1 New England Patriots (13-3), 8 p.m. ET (CBS)
Sunday, Jan. 15
AFC: Highest remaining AFC seed at No. 2 Baltimore Ravens (12-4), 1 p.m. ET (CBS)
NFC: Lowest remaining NFC seed at No. 1 Green Bay Packers (15-1), 4:30 p.m. ET (FOX)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 2.1.12~
This week we learned that Atlanta, Georgia has and is experiencing a massive migration of African-Americans heading south from cities like New York and the Mid-West. Economically, America is undergoing State-wide ‘populations engineering’ in such an economic climate. This is what we are witnessing in America occur.
In unrelated news, Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum recording artist Keri Hilson will perform “America the Beautiful” kicking-off WrestleMania XXVII live on pay-per-view Sunday, April 3 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.26.11~
The New York Times notes how many African-Americans are moving South for a better quality of life.
Here’s that view in the far left of G.E’s tax day billions and Libya/ NATO news stories.
The migration South of African-American peeps is like Toni Morrison‘s novel in reverse gear.
Writes Sabrina Tavernese and Robert Gebeloff: “Both Michigan and Illinois, whose cities have rich black cultural traditions, showed an overall loss of blacks for the first time, said William Frey, the chief demographer at the Brookings Institution.
And Atlanta, for the first time, has replaced Chicago as the metro area with the largest number of African-Americans after New York. About 17 percent of blacks who moved to the South in the past decade left New York State, far more than from any other state, the census data show.
At the same time, blacks have begun leaving cities for more affluent suburbs in large numbers, much like generations of whites before them.
“The notion of the North and its cities as the promised land has been a powerful part of African-American life, culture and history, and now it all seems to be passing by,” said Clement Price, a professor of history at Rutgers-Newark. “The black urban experience has essentially lost its appeal with blacks in America.””
Quite exciting really! Trading in cement for green grass. Not a bad idea at all.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.25.11~
[Photo caption - Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose (1) scores as Atlanta Hawks power forward Josh Smith (5) defends in the second quarter of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Atlanta.]
Two basketball hooping peeps on twitter like the basketball flow of Derrick Rose. Derrick Rose scored 30 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 114-81 win over the Atlanta Hawks.
Their sentiments follow:
9thWonderMusic Derrick Rose is COOKING the NBA on a FOREMAN GRILL.
1stuartscott My man mike Wilbon & I had a convo..u CAN’T “NOT” like Derrick rose. His game. Work ethic. Heart. Humility. Drive. Courage. ALL top notch.
Nick Friedell of ESPN writes – “ATLANTA – Derrick Rose never forgets the bad things that happen to him on a basketball court. It gives him the drive to be successful day in and day out.
“He remembers every misstep, every wrong decision and every game that didn’t go his way. He wants to prove to any person that may have doubted him, or the way his team would bounce back in the face of adversity wrong. Plain and simple: Derrick Rose wants to beat you. EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. And if some reason he doesn’t, and the other team gets the best of him or his team, watch out. The next time he sees that team, he’ll be sure to get the job done.”
In addition, Rose says – “We knew that after that game we all felt bad,” the 22-year-old point guard said of the March 2 affair in which the Bulls struggled down the stretch. “You don’t want that feeling anymore. It hurts. And one of the reasons why we lost that game is definitely because of me. Turnovers, bad decisions, everything, it was because of me. And I just tried to stay focused. My teammates did a great job of getting open and I was finding them and they were hitting shots they normally hit.”
Learning from experience, getting the game better is what it’s all about. As Rose shows, he can deliver at the hoop.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.22.11~
From Canada to Atlanta Georgia, Justin Bieber‘s hit music journey continues with his friend Usherand new friend Jaden Smith. Watch the lads act out the journey again in Grammys footage below. Above, USA Today says Music is the magnateas Janelle Monetgoes crowd surfing at Grammys 2o11. Here’s ten blog posts we’re bumping on via social media from Hollywood in this snap shoot of entertainment news being read in The Capitol of Entertainment in Te Ao. Enjoy!
1 bilion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. Yet we are made up of 63% H2O as people. I think true celebrity is about whose moving water flows in the world. It’s as simple as something like that.
Nicole Richie is one of the brightest stars that does all year round. She’s our girl. Click on pic to learn more about what we can do through initiatives like Global Water.
To make clean water flow in dry places where it needs to be the most, let’s do it. Thanks. Love you all.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
This just in via text: “d-child’s solider (t.i atlanta) 4 K2 maori co. Please.”
A reply, to this post, from a certain Jewish, West Hollywood publicist of a certain American pop star and (national American treasure) today for Maori soldiers today.
“Nga tane toa o Te Roopu a K2 Company – Arohanui tatou no Te Taone Nui o Nga Anahera. Ka kite tatou. Ka Tu Te Whare Ka Ora. Kia kaha roa mo ake.”
[Destiny Child's Hollywood Star, the Maori version from Hollywood today for K2 Maori Company and friends and family].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.16.10~