It looks like Microsoft is working with the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language, and the University of Limerick. I’ve been trying to get Microsoft’s attention to simply get a Hawaiian keyboard included with Windows, and can’t even get people to respond to my email. What does it take? * we = Hale Kuamo’o, the state’s Hawaiian Language Center at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo.
Governor Lingle Signs Hawaiian Language Education, Charter School Bills In Hilo.
Act 133 expands the existing Hawaiian Language Immersion Program by establishing an instructional program in which children can meet the state’s education standards through the medium of the Hawaiian language. Under the new law, the state Department of Education will work collaboratively with the University of Hawai’i at Hilo College of Hawaiian Language to implement this initiative.
BTW, Dave, I like the format of your morning coffee notes, but you need a logo for it.
Maybe a shot of you sitting in Starbucks with your mug. I’ll have to borrow the format for my NahenaheNet weblog. Like I said before, I only steal, er, borrow, from the best
Dave shares his thoughts on the week long RonnieFest.
I was thinking the same thing. If Clinton or Carter had died during the Bush presidency there is no way we would have had a week long pageant celebrating their lives. Not that Carter deserved one; he was basically a decent man who was in over his head in a turbulent era. Clinton will probably be most remembered for a stain left on someone’s dress. I’m not sure that Reagan would have gotten this treatment last year when Bush’s reelection seemed assured. Now it’s been a week-long excuse to move the media focus away from Iraq. I was 20 years…
No place for guitars and bodhran in Irish traditional music.
“Mayo Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann secretary, Seamus Duffy, who hosts his own music show on Mid-West Radio, described guitars and bodhrans as instruments of ‘low musical quality that are destroying the integrity of pure traditional music.’” Hmm. Reminds me of a joke I was told in Ireland: “What’s the best way to play a bodhran?” Answer: “With a knife.” Ouch!
I received a wonderful CD gift a few weeks ago.
My wife and I were visited by a wonderful family from Ireland, and received a copy of “Eilis”‘s “Time To Sail” from them after they returned there. Absolutely delightful voice and superb production.
The search for a Ph.d. moves back toward the Emerald Isle.
I’ve been spending a lot of web time recently investigating various Ph.d. programs, admittedly without a firm idea of a research topic. Our campus, the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, does not offer any Ph.d. programs. UH-Manoa does, but to be perfectly honest I’d rather relocate out of the state than move to O’ahu in order to pursue a Ph.d. One of my problems is that I have too many areas of interest, but fewer in which I have both interest and formal education. After meeting with a lot of people, the concensus is that I probably will not be…