Because science, innovation, education are New Zealand peoples spirit - of our strong outrigger canoe culture of navigatable adventurous and creative discoveries into new horizons of destiny and change too:
In investing R&D capital into our future innovative inventors of sustainability and peace news:
In my mind I see, children all throughout the South Pacific, even up to the Marshall Islands into even the island of Guam, maybe Vietnam too. They each have a laptop and tablet each. On the internet they are taught curriculum subjects from New Zealand.
Their learning is accelerated and a generation of Polynesian (and Asian?) children arise, supported by their New Zealand friends nearby and afar, to allow the potential of Polynesia’s youth to be all they will be, for the gifts in their lives the world will need to be stronger, smarter, more creative – in the years to come. If we all do this for them that’s so going to happen.
This is the burden that sits very strongly on me today. I really want to see our groovy and unique white, Pakeha New Zealanders do it, just to teach the world what cool New Zealand citizens look like as architects of the world – and to push back the powers of greed, on our Island dwelling Polynesian friends.
Although we admire the braun of Polynesian peoples natural dna (Jonah Lomu storms to mind) - it is their Peaceful spirit (most days), their respect for their elderly, their creativity so rich yet largely untapped, their spiritual gifts, the notable and noble warmth of heart, a trusting innocence in the good of the wider world and their unique thoughts that dwell within their minds; that we will need to see more of in the world, twenty years out from this point. We need to invest more in it.
Photo: Namua Island, Aleipata Upolu, Samoa–Real Adventures. (more…)
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True fact: Creative Maori-Kiwi kid, young Jakey Davis attends Catholic school.
He is so smart, when I’m in Jakey’s presence, my brain hurts tracking the zings that go through his thought processes at lightning Te Uira speed.
Can’t help admire his clever. Academically Jakey is definitely in the fast track. The self-described “one of the two best” in his Saturday mornings rugby team, Jake loves going to school every day. If he could go to school on the weekends too, Jakey so would. Such a Maori nerd!
New Zealand’s got smart talent rising up in Kiwi neighborhoods.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.7.12~
July 27, 2012 | Categories: Academics, Asia Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Athletes, Catholic Watch, Children, Children's Books, Creative, Cruickshank Montrose, Education, Grace, Happiness, Hollywood Maori Kings, Jakey Davis, Kiwi Heroes, Kool Kiwis, New Zealand, New Zealand Citizens, Northland, Pop Cultural Commentary, Rugby, Smart, Smile Club, South Pacific, Sports, Star System - The Art of Aotearoa New Zealand Celebrity, Star System - The Art of South Pacific Celebrity, Star Trek, Star Wars, Strength, Structuralists, Superman, Whanau, Whangarei City | Leave A Comment »
Tonkin & Taylor are doing way too much, with their Geotechnical Playground virtual world on their website.
Zoom in for a look. Nice website pictures. Clever.
The “nic” part, cracks me up!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 4.7.12~
July 3, 2012 | Categories: Geotechnical Technology, Geothermal Energy, Geothermal Ngati Whatua, New Zealand, Real Estate, Science, Science & Innovation, Science Teachers, Science-Fantasy, Structuralists, Wastage, Water, Water New Zealand, Waterways New Zealand | Leave A Comment »
Avid book reader and top Kiwi blogger, Graeme Beatttie, is always reading a good book.
The former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller (of Penguin and Scholastic books distribution fame), and a favorite book judge in Asia-Pacific for both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards is who writers turn to in New Zealand for good book recommends. In fact, Graeme’s taste selections of books he offers readers, create a road paved with good reads, akin to the study of seismic behaviour of structural systems, but just on a literary landscape, within books for readers minds.
Given his discerning eye for winning books, perhaps more than any of us, Beattie knows the importance of a well structured story in books and the joy these books give readers on a universal level, year-after-year.
His astute views about the international English language book scene are much appreciated in New Zealand – a nation of buttery chardonnay drinkers and book snobs.
A mixed-model media reader (in a good way), blogs that Mr Beattie follows and recommends include: collage of life, distractions, fifi verses the world, o audacious book, overkill, peterwellsblog, stoatspring, tales of a literary nobody, the sound of butterflies, transpress nz, trendy but casual, what? me? blog? and of course, world of the written word. Now that’s a list of websites to read, you couldn’t possibly regret.
[At the time of writing, the no.1 book on The NY Times Best Sellers list is this one].
Graeme also appreciates the fact that solving the world’s fresh water situation, should be more of a priority than feeding a war focus in the world. Many wars are caused because people fear they will run out of water. (more…)
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OUR OUTRIGGER CANOES OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION, INNOVATION FOR POLYNESIAN & PASIFIKA YOUTH POPULATIONS OF THE WORLD – NEW ZEALAND SPIRIT RISING & INVESTING IN PI YOUTH
Because science, innovation, education are New Zealand peoples spirit - of our strong outrigger canoe culture of navigatable adventurous and creative discoveries into new horizons of destiny and change too:
In investing R&D capital into our future innovative inventors of sustainability and peace news:
In my mind I see, children all throughout the South Pacific, even up to the Marshall Islands into even the island of Guam, maybe Vietnam too. They each have a laptop and tablet each. On the internet they are taught curriculum subjects from New Zealand.
Their learning is accelerated and a generation of Polynesian (and Asian?) children arise, supported by their New Zealand friends nearby and afar, to allow the potential of Polynesia’s youth to be all they will be, for the gifts in their lives the world will need to be stronger, smarter, more creative – in the years to come. If we all do this for them that’s so going to happen.
This is the burden that sits very strongly on me today. I really want to see our groovy and unique white, Pakeha New Zealanders do it, just to teach the world what cool New Zealand citizens look like as architects of the world – and to push back the powers of greed, on our Island dwelling Polynesian friends.
Although we admire the braun of Polynesian peoples natural dna (Jonah Lomu storms to mind) - it is their Peaceful spirit (most days), their respect for their elderly, their creativity so rich yet largely untapped, their spiritual gifts, the notable and noble warmth of heart, a trusting innocence in the good of the wider world and their unique thoughts that dwell within their minds; that we will need to see more of in the world, twenty years out from this point. We need to invest more in it.
Photo: Namua Island, Aleipata Upolu, Samoa–Real Adventures. (more…)
August 1, 2012 | Categories: Antarctica, Aotearoa New Zealand, Architectural Design, Arctic, Arctic Monkeys, Asia Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Asylum Seekers, Babies, balance, Blue Prints Aotearoa New Zealand, Boat Building, Bodyguards, Bold Ideas, Building, Building Construction Companies, Building Safety, Canoes, Child Abuse, Child Poverty, Child Protection Rights, Child Rehab Programs, Child Support, Childhood Fairy Tales, Children, Children's Books, Children's Rights, Christchurch, Climate Change, Community, Compassion, Compliance - Quality Assurance, Concrete, Confidence, Cook Islands, Cross-Cultural Narratives, Cultural Capital Economic Access Tests - New Zealand Inequality Tests, Cultural Cringe - How We Got Over It, Culture, Education, Encouragement, Endurance, Engineers, Entourage, Entrepreneurs, Environment, Environmental Crimes, Environmental Impact Assessments, Fascinating, Fathers, Fathers of America, Fiji, First Crossings, Fish Farming, Fisheries, Florida, Food Production - New Zealand Exports, Football, Foreign Affairs, forestry, Found Mothers - Aotearoa New Zealand, Founding Father's South Pacific, Founding Fathers - Aotearoa New Zealand, Founding Mothers - Aotearoa New Zealand, Founding Mothers South Pacific, Frachising Aotearoa Ideas, Freedom, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech, Freight, global warming, Grey Lyn, Guam, Healing The Land, Health & Beauty, Health Care, Heat, Heritage Arts & Culture, High protein foods, high tech electronics, Hip Hop Community, Hippies, horticulture, Housing, Human Resources Management, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, humility, Humor, I have a Dream, Imagination, Immigrants, Immigration, Immigration Tsunami Impacts, In Good Faith, Indigenous Thinking, Inequality, Infrastructure Technology, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Inventors, Investments for Future Generations of Majorities, Investors, Ironsands Drilling, Irony, Island Peoples, Island Peoples Stalking Syndrome for Economic Profit Exploitation, Islands, iwi, Iwi Biz Partners, Iwi Development, Jonah Lomu, Journalists, Joy, Kaitiaki - The Action Movie Film Franchise, Kaitiakitanga, Kermadec Islands, Kiribati Islands, Kiwi Heroes, Kool Kiwis, Krazy Kiwis, Leadership, Maina Werne-Jones, Maori, Maori All Blacks - New Zealand, Maori Rose of Sharon, Maori Volcanics, Maps, Marine Biology, Marine Biovidersity, Marine Science, Marine Surveillance, Mark Solomon, Marshall Islands, Martha Farmer, Michael Jones, Miracles, Navigation, Navy South Pacific, New Zealand, New Zealand All Blacks, New Zealand Citizens, Niue, North Island, Northland, Novels, Nuku'alofa, Nutrition Life Planning, Ocean Governance, Ocean Paddlers, Oceania, Oceanography, Oceans, packaging, Parenting, Pasifika, Polynesian, Polynesian Minors, Ponsonby, Pop Art, Pop Cultural Commentary, Rarotonga, Ross Sea, Rowing, Rugby, Samoa, Sci-Fi, Science, Science & Innovation, Science Teachers, Science-Fantasy, Seeing Through Uniforms, Self Defense Skills, Shipping, Sid Going, Social Engineering, Social Justice, Social Media, Social Workers, Solomon Islands, Sound Engineering, South Island, South Pacific, Sports, Sports Horiwood, Sports Psychology, Sports Sponsorship, Sports Talent Management, Star System - The Art of Aotearoa New Zealand Celebrity, Star System - The Art of Global Celebrity, Star System - The Art of South Pacific Celebrity, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship, Strategic Interest, Strength, Structuralists, Stuart Dodd, Super Yachts, Superpowers discourse and direction, Superyachts, Superyachts Culture, Surfing, Sustainable Development of the Ocean, Sustainable Living, Sustainable Prosperity, Te Tai Tokerau, Teachers, Teamwork, Technology, Teen Dads, Teen Moms, Teen Suicide Watch, Teenagers, Teenagers Self Defense, Telecom, Telecommunications, Tokelau, Tonga, Vision, Visual Arts, Vitamins, Water New Zealand, Wesley College, West Auckland, Whaleology, Whales, Whangarei City, Wings, Wrestling, Young Adults Culture, Young Kiwi Romance, Young Kiwis, Young Royals, Youth, Youth Workers | 2 Comments »