TREE CREST – CRUICKSHANK MONTROSE, NGA PUHI, TE AUPOURI, TE RARAWA, NGATI WHATUA, TAINUI
The tree of life,
crest of whakapapa tūturu.
E i toto, vis fortibus armas.
Ne oublie, mauri ora.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.2.13~
CALLY & GRANT, WAITANGI DAY CELEBRATIONS SMILES ABROAD
Cally and Grant Morrison live in Aussie. They celebrate Waitangi Day each year in celebration of their Maori heritage.
photo: Lee Constable.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 5.2.13~
MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS – TRACKING @#5,353,380 – 28.1.13
The ten most viewed segments of content today are:
| 1.Entertainment Celebrity News | 2,907 |
| 2.Entertainment Distribution | 2,817 |
| 3.Hollywood Entertainment News | 2,736 |
| 4.New Zealand | 2,670 |
| 5.Australia | 2,671 |
| 6.Oscars | 2,554 |
| 7.Horiwood Top 10 | 2,537 |
| 8.Russia | 2,517 |
| 9.Sports | 2,513 |
10. Innovation
The website started as an experiment. It now has 21k+ posts across 9,100+ different themes. Thanks for being in it and participating, happy surfing. As an audience we’re tracking at #5,353,380. Only ten days to go! :)
images: wb. getty. my own. nz’s sunday news @link
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.1.13~
NOVAK WINS AUSTRALIAN OPEN 3 YEARS ON THE TROT – A WORLD FIRST
“What a joy. It’s an incredible feeling to win this trophy again. This is definitely my favourite grand slam. I love this tournament. I love this court. I have to congratulate Andy and thank him.”
Novak Djokovic became the first man to win three successive Australian Open titles in the professional era when he beat third seed Andy Murray 6-7 7-6 6-3 6-2 in a battle of attrition on Sunday.–SuperSport. photo: Gallo images.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.1.13~
BASKETBALL NEWS. BREAKERS 91. WOLLONGONG 74. – No.9
Basketball News: Wollongong 74. Breakers 91.
HT: 43-49. It is the 9th straight winningest win for The Breakers.
Photo: Adam McLean.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.1.13~
THE 32HR AUSSIE WORKING WEEK – SHOWS WATER + HOPS TIME HAVE TAKEN OVER
Australians only work 32 hours a week. What they’re saying is: pub time matters. What else can that mean?!
Anyway… cheers to that then. Lazy ochres. :)
the truth is: companies are cutting costs (part time staff means no long term additional employment incentives are being paid). Two Aussie Banks also predict Australian unemployment to be on the rise.
the trend shows: “Australians are living the good life rather than working hard is instead a reflection of a longer trend away from full-time towards part-time work, more flexible working hours, and the increasing casualisation of the work force.”
– smh.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 24.1.13~
BASKETBALL NEWS – THE BREAKERS 95. SYDNEY KINGS 76.
Basketball news: NZ Breakers 95. Sydney Kings 76. The Breakers have been on an 8th game winning roll.
Points on the board in the popular team effort at home: Breakers 95 (Corletto 22, Abercrombie 17, Bruton 12). Sydney 76 (Madgen 20, Crosswhite 22, Henry 11) HT: 58-40.
More@TheB‘s tweet feed link or fb page.
[Photo: Alex Pledger - The Breakers, Getty Images].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 24.1.13~
NBA SIGNS NEW BASKETBALL TALENT TO SPURS
Sports: basketball news. NBA’s Spurs have signed young Aaron Baynes to take the ball to the hoop in the basketball league.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 24.1.13~
A MELBOURNE TENNIS UPSET – SERENA WILLIAMS INTRODUCES SLOANE STEPHENS TENNIS RISE – JANUARY 23RD 2013
Young Sloane Stephens, 19, caused an upset at Melbourne in the tennis. If you’ve lived in Melbourne as I did during special summer working vacation months, slugging it out working in the heat, in my New Zealand college years, you will know that the Australia Open is seen as one of the most fun festive tennis events in the world. People jet in from around the globe to celebrate the event. It’s an elite audience event. (more…)
CHINA’S GREEN EXPERIMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE + CONSTRUCTION ASIA-PACIFIC + 10 POSTS
photo: Kiwi constructs 2013 – the heroes we know.
Ten ideas we’re reading online right now are:
3. Rihanna
5. Mission Impossible + pop culture reflections
7. Brain science – new horizons +going green
8. World ag – stats of whose who in the world?
9. What does NZ politics need?
10. Sir Ralph Norris
Photo: Shanghai China’s $500b solar energy experimental infrastructure. WSJ.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.1.13~
GARY THE GOAT’S LAWYER’S PRESS – AUSTRALIA 2012
Aussie legal humorists humor: Gary the goat has day in court and wins: A goat accused of eating flowers in Sydney CBD turns up to court and has fine overturned.
Water is such a commodity of value in Sydney, if stories like this are making the news across the ditch. :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.1.13~
AUS-KONG PROPERTY BUY UPS AINT CHEAP
demographia’s new study says to buy property in Australia is second only to Hong Kong.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 21.1.13~
EUROPEANS ARE THE MOST WANNABE AUSSIES EVER 2013
The Australian citizenship tests sorts out the wannabe Aussies in the new pack of immigrants to the red southland.
Adelaide’s The Advertiser looked at who the most wannabe Australians are as per their grading results in the citizenship test. Sweden, The Netherlands, Finland, France and Switzerland all wanted to be Australians the most, achieving on average 97% in their tests.
Kiwis who last year were voted by all Australians as being their most preferred immigrants in the world as “Kiwis just get it,” and the most compatable to the Aussies according to the Aussies in a survey of 2012, apparently aren’t all that kosher in swotting for Aussie-set tests. NZers on average only scored 72.6% in the test. (more…)
DIGITAL BILLBOARDS – ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING SYDNEY’S LANDSCAPE 2013
They have the population mass (audiences) to do it. That is add value to the digital advertising cityscapes terrain. Australia is going to be more like LA. A visual cosmopolitan digital billboard cities tribe. Good for the media industry and real estate of brands. Graphene + solar wiring technology could be a good alternative too to the fossil fuels equation of what to do with electricity’s daylight? In times of global warming, you need to develop technology with the show biz side of life and market share.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 21.1.13~
DAIRY FARMERS AUSTRALIA… ARE THEY GETTING SHUT OUT OF THE GAME?
No.1 Aussie post is: Aussie supermarkets + milk control. Are farmers winning? Buy ups, distribution market monopolies (ie: chains) and reducing consumer choice. (more…)
MILK IS No.1 PRODUCT IN SUPERMARKET PRICING WARS
Milk, the no.1 draw to Aussie supermarkets: Coles monopoly on running milk as a loss leader, reduces choice and gives the supermarket chain pricing influence in Australia.
“Coles and Woolworths sell the private label milk at a loss, to bring customers into their stores for other purchases. Dairy farmers say it has the potential to ruin their industry, forcing them to funnel their products into brands with lower margin.”
”This is a classic Trojan horse tactic,” the chief executive of the Food and Grocery Council, Gary Dawson, said. ”As the range of choices drops, so does competition, raising the risk in the longer run supermarkets will have more market power to increase prices at will.” (more…)
SYDNEY MUSIC FESTIVALS & REMINDING THE KIDS TO REHYDRATE IN RECORD HEAT – 18th JANUARY 2012
"You can lead a youth to water..."
There was sunscreen available at first-aid tents, plenty of misting areas, volunteers in certain areas filling up your water bottle for you while others roamed the site with spray bottles – all of which was free. (Bonus!). And on a day like this – barely a cloud in the sky (at lunchtime at least), the sun imperiously blazing – you can’t help but think there’s only so much the organisers of the Big Day Out can do.
– SMH events coverage. Photo: Edwina Pickles. It was a record 48.5 degree heat in Sydney today. Gotta love your music to get out in that heat.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 18.1.13~
HOT IN THE CITY – SYDNEY HITS HEAT, RECORD 48.5 DEGREES
It’s fair to say, it’s hot in Sydney city. 48.5-degrees is hit. It is the hottest day on record since temperatures were able to be recorded.
Photo: NBC news. Agricultural realities are harsh for Sydney farmerrs today as Sydney tries to stay cool.
The price of air conditioning in global warming times is also on a lot of Sydney residents minds.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 18.1.13~
CH.AIRY AUST.ABRIANS – “CHINA’S” DAIRY NEEDS + SOUTH CANTERBURY “FARM CO-OPS” PROCESSING PLANTS + AUSSIE BANK CLIENTS + SINGAPORES MARKET
a few buzz words for dairy types:
safe milk-sourced foods. Chinese companies [should] live up to the powerful New Zealand brand image. Chinese using the attributes of the New Zealand brand in China. false fronts impersonating “New Zealand” brand attributes. falsifying prophet levels with counterfeit ingredients. South Canterbury’s joint ventures with China. Land buys. Water share. Protein share acquisition. GFC designed solvencies and NZ hit companies. Don Brash. O.I.O. Appoint NZ directors. Taupo China joint land-ventures. Zong Qinghou. Kelly Zong. Australian focused Chinese company supply chain venture. New Zealand is the second largest offshore provider of dairy protein for China’s kids for the Chinese market with an 18% market share. Singapore has 37% market share. Australia has 15% market share.
What we’re talking about is “the price of distribution” of NZ whenua, water, sun, minerals flows via agriculture. The reason given is China’s growing markets. Yet there’s nothing stopping a Chinese company distributing NZ’s water benefits (via protein sales) anywhere they want to in the world, thus undercutting in time, NZ’s supply chain.
So, how high is that cost really? [Photo - South Canterbury South Island].
–Fran Sullivan talks last year’s hot topic, this year’s fleece… when discussing “the face of protein” superimposed on NZ’s water supply chain propensity in the world – and who gets the bulk of those flows… and who doesn’t. Read her article here. Very informative. Thanks Fran.
[recap: Aussie banks. China investors. Singapore's market... and South Canterbury taking a chunk].
General summary: The top 1% in the world… are surrounding NZ’s water, land, farming flows in these deals and discussion. Is 99% of NZ happy? Included? Involved? Getting the best value? (more…)
TEEN INVENTOR & ARTIST YAYA LU IS A BIT AUSSIE SPESH SMART AS A DESIGNER
A new breed of teens are arising. At 16, Yaya Lu has designed a voice-activated wheel chair. So clever. A true artist.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.1.13~
WHISKY N’ DRY GUINEA PIGS – NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA IN RISING SUMMER HEAT
Before I left for the USA from New Zealand, seven years ago (almost) at a cocktail party in Christchurch, a lovely lady (redhead) said to me:
“why don’t we all get guinea pigs. I’m going to call mine Whisky n’ Dry.”
She was funny. (more…)
KEEP IT COOL
The Bureau of Meteorology earlier raised its forecast maximum for Sydney to 39 degrees from a mid-30s target issued yesterday. It was readjusted to 31–smh. Photo: Bondi.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 12.1.13~
MID-FIRES JULIA GILLARD TACKLES CHILD ABUSE NEXT – A ROYAL COMMISSION MATTER
NSW are on high alert during vacation season 2013. In the interim, Australia’s PM goes into overdrive kickstarting her year off with child abuse in her sights. ”Hideous. Shocking. Vile,” are her opening lines of Gillard’s latest rant.
”I believe our nation needs to have this royal commission.”
Love it. Girlfriend… bring it on. The worst kind of child abuse occurring at the moment is economic child abuse. Where inequality rises, it is a statistical fact abuse towards children rises with it. In times of greed and inequality, children and their families are often left exposed and vulnerable by The State. The abuse of children abused in such conditions, was pre-set for children economically by leaders… so I think a politician in the South Pacific and Asia-Pacific whose people are earning well, (entire)… is more than qualified to go for the jugular on the child abuse issue with integrity. (more…)
LIKE A BOOMERANG… WATER GOES UP TO SKY, WATER RETURNS TO EARTH
… irrigate.
Photo: Boomerang, The Economist.
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Aussie poem:
I go down to the creek Where the water gurgles Joyfully As it hurries along Over the shining sand and pebbles To its destiny With the sea. Dappled sunlight (more…)
