“An Irish-speaking school has reportedly joined the list of the top-10 feeder schools for Trinity College Dublin ahead of some of Ireland’s best-known fee-paying institutions.” This is similar to our experience. Nearly every 12th grade student that has graduated from our laboratory immersions school, Ke Kula ‘O Nawahiokalani’opu’u has been concurrently enrolled in university classes during their senior year in high school, and a very high percentage (in the 90% range) has continued into college. We heard critics for years telling us that our children would not be able to function in college if they received their elementary and secondary…
TG4 soap ‘Ros na Run’ has been sold to a television station in Philadelphia.
Cool. I have family in Philadelphia; hopefully one of them receives WBYE and can record some episodes for me.
Ask and you shall receive.
Scott delivers his podcast on the new products from Apple. Scott, my birthday isn’t until June, but you can send the iPod Shuffle anytime
When are people going to learn that it is not ‘finders-keepers’ when it comes to Hawaiian remains and relics?
An Orange County man agreed to plead guilty to trying to sell a Hawaiian skull over the Internet.
Blogosphere buzzing over Apple new product announcements.
I was tuned into a couple of people who were blogging Steve Job’s keynote at Macworld. There is a lot to be excited about – the iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, and the improvements in iLife ’05. I’m most interested in iWork, the AppleWorks replacement. AppleWorks was getting long in the tooth, and was not even a Coca app – shameful for an Apple product in this day and age. While it was not streamed live, the keynote is now available for viewing. I heard that Jobs did crash an application during the demo, but was quickly able to force-quit and…
A hui hou e Alana…
I did my last regular appearance on Alana I Kai Hikina last night, but may return periodically as a guest or part-time DJ. Alana founder Makela Bruno-Kidani has returned from a few months off, allowing me to enjoy my Sunday evenings at home again. I’ll miss the comradery, though.
3rd Annual Hawai’i International Conference On Arts & Humanities.
I’ll be presenting at this conference on Thursday with my colleague Kiele Akana-Gooch. We’ll be discussing the development of the Ulukau Hawaiian Language Digital Library project, which seems to grow each day in breadth and depth.
One of the Idiot-Cowards has been arrested.
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Idiots and cowards, to boot.
Honolulu Police are looking for the person(s) responsible for setting off an improvised explosive device on New Year’s evening that severely injured an 11-year old girl. The suspects in the case have hired lawyers and refused to cooperate with police. I saw a TV interview with the girl and it was heart-wrenching.
And I used to like John McCain.
He says that he will oppose legislation that would allow Native Hawaiians to seek federal recognition, and claims that “when Hawai’i became a state there was an implicit agreement at that time that Native Hawaiians would not receive the same status as Native Americans.” Bullshit. Did Native Hawaiians agree to that? How exactly was it implied to them, Senator? Was it also implied to native Alaskans when Alaska was admitted as a state, just prior to Hawai’i?