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…
Please, Userland, Please!!!
The new template threw me, I thought this was an updated Manila to Radio Userland conversion tool, but it appears to be Jake’s old tool for Radio 7. Editthispage.com has been down all weekend. Again. I’d love to move my site off of it, but there are probably 1500 posts on it, mostly news items. I don’t have the UserTalk chops to do this. I’d prefer not to delete my exising Radio Userland site (which is what this tool did) in order to make the move. But if I had no choice I would. Could we please get a working…
Manila to Radio Userland soon to be a go!
I’d given up hope of getting Userland to do a tool that would convert my EditThisPage.com hosted sit to Radio, and was about to look into coding my own. I decided to do one last Google search, and found it! Don’t know how the heck I missed the announcement. Now if I could only get my site’s root. ETP.com has been unresponsive for the past 24 hours or so. I’ll miss the Manila site, I think I got one of the first accounts on ETP when Dave first made it avaiable, but it has gotten slow and is frequently unreachable.…
I caved in an renewed my copy Radio Userland.
After thinking about it some more, I realized it was $3.33 a month for what is probably still my favorite program. Whether or not the kernel or root are updated again is irrelevant at this point. I’m hoping Userland’s move to releasing the kernel as Open Source bears some fruit. Best of luck to Userland; I hope the $39.95 helps.
I’ve been enjoing a bit of ‘Guinness Therapy’ recently.
Who cares that they can’t claim any health benefits, a pint a night has been keep my spirit up for the past week. Guinness claims that in blind taste tests subjects could not tell the difference between Guinness brewed in Ireland and aboad. Still doesn’t taste the same to me. Maybe it’s the lack of the proper ambience. Reminds me of a joke I heard in Ireland: An Australian, American, German and Irishman all pull up chairs at a pub. The Australian orders a Foster’s and declares it the finest on the planet. The American orders a Budweiser and declares…