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This illustration was for ‘Vision’ a Chinese publication the Oct.issue of 2011 is a special 10th anniversary issue. The theme is “hello, future.” I was one of 12 illustrators commissioned to illustrate something to do with the environment. Rather than the usual doom and gloom angle I decided to take a look at our environmental problem from another perspective and use a bit of symbolism. The crane may conceivably be the oldest bird on earth; there is fossil proof that they existed over 60 million years ago. I think that is a good starting point. The crane has been around a long time. We as human beings haven’t, and in our short time here on planet earth we have managed to make enormous leaps of imagination in understanding our environment. We are facing one of the most deadliest problems. If we fail to successfully curb our polluting habits we face extinction from climate change. Humanity has no choice but to tackle this problem head on.
The crane, historically across all cultures is considered a symbol of wisdom. In China, ‘heavenly cranes’ tian-he or ‘blessed cranes’ xian-he, were symbols of wisdom, which carried legendary sages on their backs transporting them between heavenly worlds.
In Japan the crane was known as ‘the bird of happiness’ and was often referred to as ‘Honorable Lord Crane’. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane.
In Europe Cranes were associated with vigilance and loyalty. Early Christian writers associated the bird’s reputation for vigilance, loyalty and goodness with the virtues of life in the monastery.
In Africa the crane is associated with language and thought.
In greek mythology the crane is considered to be a bird of Apollo the sun god. It is seen as a herald of Spring and light. Apollo is said to have disguised himself as a crane when on visits to the mortal world.
The crane is a symbol that we need to be wise to save our future.
© Daniel Mackie
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There is a vast difference between ideas and ideologies; ideas question and liberate, while ideologies justify and dictate. Generally, when an ideology forms, it is based on a set of beliefs originally set forth by one person. Those beliefs become an "-ism" when adepts, followers, and factotums create an organization to contain and disseminate what is now a mixture of facts and faith. As they expand, ideological movements divide and redivide.
from Blessed Unrest, by Paul Hawken
I was interested in reading this book about Glenn Beck, because I've never seen his TV show, except in videos on the internet. Mostly I've heard about the crazy, malicious things he's said and done.
The author of this book isn't objective; he obviously has contempt for Beck - and after reading what Glenn Beck has done, especially behind the scenes of his shows, it's easy to understand the contempt. Beck, an extremely ambitious and very nasty man, switched from alcohol and cocaine to the much more potent drugs of religion and self-righteousness. Now he's passing himself off as a historian and messiah.
There have always been crazy people; my concern with Glenn Beck is why so many people seem to believe his hateful ravings. Fear and hatred, combined with prejudice and ignorance, are powerful forces - there are no national or cultural boundaries, and the ideology or religion doesn't matter: where unrestrained anger rules, violence follows. As much as he rails against Nazis and communists, he knows very little about those movements and the people in them, or he would recognize his own emotions and processes. And that would be an appalling vision in the mirror, for a man who has always been mentally and emotionally unstable.
Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.
What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
you will always keep your balance.
What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don't see the self as self,
what do we have to fear?
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.
~ Tao Te Ching
www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010052023/glenn-becks-commo...
America has this long tradition of twisted, odd, widely beloved and yet darkly dangerous right-wing cultural impresarios that pop up out of our landscape like cultural tornadoes, leaving huge swaths of derangement and destruction in their wake. Aimee Semple McPherson. Father Coughlin. Joe McCarthy. Once in a while, when the cultural cross-currents intersect just so, they rise on the whirlwind, gather huge followings, and lead their followers on a furious high-velocity turn that blows across the countryside in desperate pursuit of a utopia only they can see. These maunderings are typically mercifully short and usually end in disaster, for both the people who started the storm as well as those who got swept away in it. And all is forgotten—until the next time.
The next time, in this case, arrived on 9/11/01; and the tornado took on the form of Glenn Beck. It only seems like Glenn Beck has been with us forever. It's hard to remember a time when his endless rants weren't filling hours of TV time on Headline News, and more recently dominating everything else on FOX. But Beck was basically going nowhere fast before 9/11—the event that saved his failing TV career, turned this know-nothing showman into a leading political theorist, and catapulted him into the very eye of the far-right's always-churning cultural storm.
It's high time somebody took a critical look at the full arc of Beck's character and career. That somebody turned out to be Alex Zaitchik, who had already spent quite a bit of time covering the right wing. Zaitchik's book, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, hits the bookshelves this week. Besides being an engaging telling of Beck's personal tale, "Common Nonsense" examines Beck's character and motivations in a way that might help progressives get a better handle on who he is, what he means to do to America, and what we're really up against.
mediamatters.org/columns/201006040059
www.tampabay.com/features/books/review-glenn-beck-called-...
mediamatters.org/search/tag/glenn_beck
A St George's flag reflects in the side windows of a Trent Barton bus operating the new i4 service along Nottingham Road, Stapleford towards Nottingham.
14th June 2012
My amazing and beautiful nephew! He is a wonder to me and, though very young, is such an incredible human being already!
Kindergarteners from all corners of Howard County came to IU Kokomo's campus for their first day of college at the Walk Into My Future event. The day is designed to get children accustomed to a college campus and to hopefully inspire them to go to college one day.
Mateo Farfan, my son, during the remembrance day, in Ottawa Canada.
A proud soldier and a fine men, wearing the uniform of the Camerons High Lander his unit, A feeling of proud and also grateful for him and all members of The Canadian forces, who fought for us. And with his actions this young and brave soldiers, like Mateo and Ben, are leading by example.
This is a flyer I designed promoting the upcoming talk on sexism by renowned feminist Barbara Berg. If you're in Baltimore on Wednesday, Nov. 4th 2009 please join us at Red Emmas!
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My son received an award this weekend and was honored at a wonderful banquet by those in the photo and many other notable names. ^_^
Two banners at the Our Land, Our Water, Our Future Rally in Corbett Gardens, Bowral on Saturday 19th November.
See the videos here, Alan Jones 01
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa7vSOS1pE4
Bill Heffernan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbhohiJpKWQ
Alan Jones 02
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWuN_a3h_Wg
Jeremy Buckingham
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adMImj_yce8
Alan Jones 03
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zm9b5I3g0
Drew Hutton
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEg0sNUXex0
Alan Jones 04
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKDf_jWKxQ0
Tim Duddy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpbs5a2_iY0
Alan Jones 05
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jEI6ksMFn4
Peter Martin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka-RRaiEeYA
Alan Jones 06
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggu1rl1S7IU
Larry Whipper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-E-biIaJSk
Alan Jones 07
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LZANRRKf8s
Kathy Roach
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD-cjoYROc4
Pru Goward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaX5LKMX8Dw
Alan Jones 08
Today is the school board meeting.
A teacher [more of a attendance police member] is possibly getting fired. Off of school grounds a student came to him for advice [many students do that, one being myself] he told the views of himself. Apparently he wasn't allowed to do that. Now the school board is trying to get rid of him. THREE HUNDRED plus people have signed the petition against firing him. Even a few teachers, too. Not one parent/student has called and complained about him. They also told him that he's no longer allowed to speak about abstinence in his own home. Needless to say, tonight is a big deal. I hope I can make it [our Jeep is broken].
Oh and if you can't feel the irony, in health classes they teach us abstinence.
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Only one more full day of school! Two half days after that.
With the last in a three-part series on the YCA Graduation Ceremony, (ICYMI, we shared video highlights, a hula dancer, and now some still photos) I extend my heartfelt thanks and alohacongrats to the staff of YCA for all their hard work and send my best wishes for an AlohaMerry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season.🎄
I attended the fall 2020 graduation for the Youth Challenge Academy Class 53 at their Kalaeloa campus on November 25. Hawai'i Youth Challenge Academy O'ahu has been fortunate because they’ve been able to continue on-site operations with the cadets during the COVID pandemic. As I do at all of their graduations, I prepared an Honorary Certificate for each of the graduating cadets and presented a $500 scholarship for one graduate from the Kalaeloa campus. I also contribute a $500 scholarship for one deserving graduate at the Hilo Youth Challenge campus.
As mentioned previously, Cadet Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright was the recipient of the O‘ahu Mike Gabbard scholarship and also performed the beautiful hula dance. After leaving YCA, she plans to continue her studies at Leeward Community College, in the automotive arena.
I love this program. We live a few blocks away from the Kalaleloa Campus, and even though their reveille bugling begins at 4:30 am, I’ve yet to receive any complaints from neighboring constituents. Also, thankfully, I’m not a light sleeper. 😉
As background, Youth Challenge provides 16 to 18-year-old "AT-PROMISE"; students a second chance to obtain their high school diploma and become successful, responsible, and productive citizens. The Academy instills discipline and a sense of self-worth by using military training to significantly improve the life skills and employment potential of young people. The program's eight core components focus on the holistic development of the youth and include: academic excellence, life-coping skills, job skills, health & hygiene, responsible citizenship, community service, leadership/followership, and physical fitness. The five-month residential phase of the program is followed by a year-long mentoring relationship with specially trained members of each graduate's community.
The Academy was founded in August 1994 and is administered by the Hawai‘i Army National Guard. It has campuses in Kalaeloa on O‘ahu and in Hilo on the island of Hawai‘i. Each cycle, the program accepts approximately 150 young people. Since its inception, the program has graduated over 6,500 students with 80 percent of them earning their high school diploma. Keep up the good work cadets, YCA Director Sina Atanoa, and all the YCA staff!
(Pictured in order: w/YCA Dir., Sina Atanoa; w/Augie T.; w/scholarship recipient, Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright; w/City Councilmember-elect, Augie T.; Honolulu Prosecutor-elect, Steve Alm; Matt Taufate’e from First L.A.P. (life after prison) Ministries and Peacemakers); w/YCA Secretary, Donna Yoshimura.
The junkyard poet, went swimming in the sea,
He sank beneath the surface, the water was to deep.
And there he still is, floating in the sea.
The junkyard poet, he set him self free.
Night three of seven.
.
Infinite as the sky..
Yet, confined within earthly forms.
We are everything and nothing, moving through life not embracing our full potential.
For those of you who have asked what the hell the "Barack Obama Tripod" is, here's the answer! It's just Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope. I've used the book on occasion to give my camera a little extra height for a shot. I also use it to give the camera a flat surface to rest on every once in awhile. I'm actually considering buying a gorilla tripod. Anyone know where I can get a good deal?
This book is quite good. It lays out the issues our country faces one by one and Obama discusses his own experiences with each of them as well as some potential solutions. The candidness of his writing was a major draw for me as I was picking a candidate to support early on. He's not afraid to tell the truth about his past and he is open-minded enough to recognize where people with differing opinions are coming from. I laughed heartily when I read an amateur review on Amazon.com that criticized the book's content because it, and I quote, "borders on audaciousness."
I decided to vote for Obama at the Minnesota caucus on Super Tuesday. I believe he's the only candidate left who can transcend the partisan tension in Washington. Also of importance, he represents a fresh start in politics for a generation of young voters who want to believe that the country they will inherit will still be a prosperous and fair one. I think he's the type of person who can admit mistakes and work towards fixing them. In other words, he's honest.
I am hoping that the Democratic race will end sooner than later to minimize John McCain's time advantage. With all due respect to Senator Clinton, she should realize how desperate her campaign looks as it keeps trying to find new ways to justify the idea that she can win this nomination.
Bottom line, I trust Barack Obama. It's why I voted for him in February and why I look forward to voting for him again in November.
PS: I'm neglecting FGR today because I don't get my own kitchen in the dorms.
...we can still save them. During "Palm Sunday" celebration, in 2011, at the wonderful little town of Acanceh, state of Yucatán, México. Nikon D2x + Nikkor 35mm/1:1.8 G AF-S DX @ 35mm; ISO 100 @ 1/350 with f/2.8 (RAW)
L + F11 for optimum viewing, please.
As I've looked into the future - this is a view of the last remaining ice on Earth in the year 2057.
If you haven't seen it, please rent or see the global warming documentary
Don’t cut my head off - A video essay
(6:30 pm for 7 pm film screening - Q&A afterward)
The COP 15 climate change summit in Copenhagen was billed as perhaps the most important political event in human history. The planet’s existence depended on it, we were told. The outcome of these negotiations many argued would go far beyond the immediate aims of reducing carbon emissions. Given the billing, it could not be left to chance and more than 30,000 people descended upon the city in December 2009. Amongst them were radical activists, environmental organizations, consulting companies, political lobbyists; they all wanted their voices to be heard by the negotiators who were deciding ourfuture. In the din that ensued, the powerful had their say; the disempowered watched from the sidelines.
The film Don’t Cut My Head Off attempts to capture the disconnects between the reality of climate change and its articulation in hyper-mediated spectacles like COP I5. It is inevitably the world’s poorest peoples that deal with the disastrous effects of a warming planet while politicians negotiate who are allowed to drown and what might yet be salvaged. It was in the midst of such bargaining between the world’s political elites that countries like Tuvalu and its doomed inhabitants became abstract notions.
We trace the story of SenoTsuhah an indigenous activist from the remote village of Chizami in Nagaland poised in the hilly corner of Northeastern India. She had gone to COP 15 to tell about the sustainable practices her community has developed over generations. During the hundreds of years the Nagas have lived in the area they have developed a system of crop rotations and irrigation for rice paddles that donot deplete the resources but work in relative harmony with the environment. These methods could even be used to counter the diminishing rainfall that different parts of the world have been experiencing because of climate change. She wanted to share her experiences and to talk of alternatives.
Nobody listened.
In Naga folklore there is a haunting song about a woman who travels to the next village to get married. Along the way she meets a fearsome headhunter who wants to cut her head off. The woman pleads for her life. Even if you kill me, she pleads, don’t cut my head off. Across the globe, thousand of communities are forced to negotiate with the killers, our urban and resource intensive lifestyles. Seno’s and Chizami's story is just one of them.
Duration 45 minutes. Film by Kazimuddin Ahmed, Somnath Batabyal, Matti Pohjonen and Pradip Saha (2011)
Kindergarteners from all corners of Howard County came to IU Kokomo's campus for their first day of college at the Walk Into My Future event. The day is designed to get children accustomed to a college campus and to hopefully inspire them to go to college one day.
With the last in a three-part series on the YCA Graduation Ceremony, (ICYMI, we shared video highlights, a hula dancer, and now some still photos) I extend my heartfelt thanks and alohacongrats to the staff of YCA for all their hard work and send my best wishes for an AlohaMerry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season.🎄
I attended the fall 2020 graduation for the Youth Challenge Academy Class 53 at their Kalaeloa campus on November 25. Hawai'i Youth Challenge Academy O'ahu has been fortunate because they’ve been able to continue on-site operations with the cadets during the COVID pandemic. As I do at all of their graduations, I prepared an Honorary Certificate for each of the graduating cadets and presented a $500 scholarship for one graduate from the Kalaeloa campus. I also contribute a $500 scholarship for one deserving graduate at the Hilo Youth Challenge campus.
As mentioned previously, Cadet Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright was the recipient of the O‘ahu Mike Gabbard scholarship and also performed the beautiful hula dance. After leaving YCA, she plans to continue her studies at Leeward Community College, in the automotive arena.
I love this program. We live a few blocks away from the Kalaleloa Campus, and even though their reveille bugling begins at 4:30 am, I’ve yet to receive any complaints from neighboring constituents. Also, thankfully, I’m not a light sleeper. 😉
As background, Youth Challenge provides 16 to 18-year-old "AT-PROMISE"; students a second chance to obtain their high school diploma and become successful, responsible, and productive citizens. The Academy instills discipline and a sense of self-worth by using military training to significantly improve the life skills and employment potential of young people. The program's eight core components focus on the holistic development of the youth and include: academic excellence, life-coping skills, job skills, health & hygiene, responsible citizenship, community service, leadership/followership, and physical fitness. The five-month residential phase of the program is followed by a year-long mentoring relationship with specially trained members of each graduate's community.
The Academy was founded in August 1994 and is administered by the Hawai‘i Army National Guard. It has campuses in Kalaeloa on O‘ahu and in Hilo on the island of Hawai‘i. Each cycle, the program accepts approximately 150 young people. Since its inception, the program has graduated over 6,500 students with 80 percent of them earning their high school diploma. Keep up the good work cadets, YCA Director Sina Atanoa, and all the YCA staff!
(Pictured in order: w/YCA Dir., Sina Atanoa; w/Augie T.; w/scholarship recipient, Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright; w/City Councilmember-elect, Augie T.; Honolulu Prosecutor-elect, Steve Alm; Matt Taufate’e from First L.A.P. (life after prison) Ministries and Peacemakers); w/YCA Secretary, Donna Yoshimura.
Kindergarteners from all corners of Howard County came to IU Kokomo's campus for their first day of college at the Walk Into My Future event. The day is designed to get children accustomed to a college campus and to hopefully inspire them to go to college one day.
I spoke with a group of Youth Challenge Academy cadets from Class 48, during their tour of the Capitol on April 17th. It was the 4th of 5 groups I'll speak with this session when they visit the Capitol. Class 48 started out with 105 cadets and there are now 97 cadets in this class. I speak every year to the whole class right before they graduate, and made them promise they'd be there for that... I let the cadets know how much I believe in this program and am proud of their commitment to see it through to the end. The military has a special place in my life – especially YCA in Kalaeloa (formerly Barber Point NAS). I told the cadets that I live just down the street, and I have the distinct pleasure of hearing their bugle blasting at reveille very early each morning.
The mission of the National Guard Youth Challenge Program is to intervene in and reclaim the lives of 16-18 year old high school dropouts, producing program graduates with the values, life skills, education, and self-discipline necessary to succeed as productive citizens. In just 5 ½ months, these at-risk teens get a second chance to obtain their GED diploma, while learning important life skills. It's not easy, and many don't make it through to the end. But many of the cadets do, and even continue their education after graduation. Some choose to join the military or enter the workforce. Read through some of the comments left by cadets on the Hawaii Youth Challenge Academy Oahu Facebook page. Their stories tell it all. Hawai’i’s YCA program has been recognized as one of the nation’s most effective for at-risk teens, and its value never ceases to amaze me. The YCA has been changing the lives of young men and women since 1998, leaving a positive mark on the Hawaiian community that will last for years to come. Keep up the good work cadets and see you at graduation in June. #changinglives #hawaiistrong #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #OURfuture #youthchallengeacademy #hawaiinationalguard
With the last in a three-part series on the YCA Graduation Ceremony, (ICYMI, we shared video highlights, a hula dancer, and now some still photos) I extend my heartfelt thanks and alohacongrats to the staff of YCA for all their hard work and send my best wishes for an AlohaMerry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season.🎄
I attended the fall 2020 graduation for the Youth Challenge Academy Class 53 at their Kalaeloa campus on November 25. Hawai'i Youth Challenge Academy O'ahu has been fortunate because they’ve been able to continue on-site operations with the cadets during the COVID pandemic. As I do at all of their graduations, I prepared an Honorary Certificate for each of the graduating cadets and presented a $500 scholarship for one graduate from the Kalaeloa campus. I also contribute a $500 scholarship for one deserving graduate at the Hilo Youth Challenge campus.
As mentioned previously, Cadet Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright was the recipient of the O‘ahu Mike Gabbard scholarship and also performed the beautiful hula dance. After leaving YCA, she plans to continue her studies at Leeward Community College, in the automotive arena.
I love this program. We live a few blocks away from the Kalaleloa Campus, and even though their reveille bugling begins at 4:30 am, I’ve yet to receive any complaints from neighboring constituents. Also, thankfully, I’m not a light sleeper. 😉
As background, Youth Challenge provides 16 to 18-year-old "AT-PROMISE"; students a second chance to obtain their high school diploma and become successful, responsible, and productive citizens. The Academy instills discipline and a sense of self-worth by using military training to significantly improve the life skills and employment potential of young people. The program's eight core components focus on the holistic development of the youth and include: academic excellence, life-coping skills, job skills, health & hygiene, responsible citizenship, community service, leadership/followership, and physical fitness. The five-month residential phase of the program is followed by a year-long mentoring relationship with specially trained members of each graduate's community.
The Academy was founded in August 1994 and is administered by the Hawai‘i Army National Guard. It has campuses in Kalaeloa on O‘ahu and in Hilo on the island of Hawai‘i. Each cycle, the program accepts approximately 150 young people. Since its inception, the program has graduated over 6,500 students with 80 percent of them earning their high school diploma. Keep up the good work cadets, YCA Director Sina Atanoa, and all the YCA staff!
(Pictured in order: w/YCA Dir., Sina Atanoa; w/Augie T.; w/scholarship recipient, Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright; w/City Councilmember-elect, Augie T.; Honolulu Prosecutor-elect, Steve Alm; Matt Taufate’e from First L.A.P. (life after prison) Ministries and Peacemakers); w/YCA Secretary, Donna Yoshimura.
With the last in a three-part series on the YCA Graduation Ceremony, (ICYMI, we shared video highlights, a hula dancer, and now some still photos) I extend my heartfelt thanks and alohacongrats to the staff of YCA for all their hard work and send my best wishes for an AlohaMerry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season.🎄
I attended the fall 2020 graduation for the Youth Challenge Academy Class 53 at their Kalaeloa campus on November 25. Hawai'i Youth Challenge Academy O'ahu has been fortunate because they’ve been able to continue on-site operations with the cadets during the COVID pandemic. As I do at all of their graduations, I prepared an Honorary Certificate for each of the graduating cadets and presented a $500 scholarship for one graduate from the Kalaeloa campus. I also contribute a $500 scholarship for one deserving graduate at the Hilo Youth Challenge campus.
As mentioned previously, Cadet Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright was the recipient of the O‘ahu Mike Gabbard scholarship and also performed the beautiful hula dance. After leaving YCA, she plans to continue her studies at Leeward Community College, in the automotive arena.
I love this program. We live a few blocks away from the Kalaleloa Campus, and even though their reveille bugling begins at 4:30 am, I’ve yet to receive any complaints from neighboring constituents. Also, thankfully, I’m not a light sleeper. 😉
As background, Youth Challenge provides 16 to 18-year-old "AT-PROMISE"; students a second chance to obtain their high school diploma and become successful, responsible, and productive citizens. The Academy instills discipline and a sense of self-worth by using military training to significantly improve the life skills and employment potential of young people. The program's eight core components focus on the holistic development of the youth and include: academic excellence, life-coping skills, job skills, health & hygiene, responsible citizenship, community service, leadership/followership, and physical fitness. The five-month residential phase of the program is followed by a year-long mentoring relationship with specially trained members of each graduate's community.
The Academy was founded in August 1994 and is administered by the Hawai‘i Army National Guard. It has campuses in Kalaeloa on O‘ahu and in Hilo on the island of Hawai‘i. Each cycle, the program accepts approximately 150 young people. Since its inception, the program has graduated over 6,500 students with 80 percent of them earning their high school diploma. Keep up the good work cadets, YCA Director Sina Atanoa, and all the YCA staff!
(Pictured in order: w/YCA Dir., Sina Atanoa; w/Augie T.; w/scholarship recipient, Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright; w/City Councilmember-elect, Augie T.; Honolulu Prosecutor-elect, Steve Alm; Matt Taufate’e from First L.A.P. (life after prison) Ministries and Peacemakers); w/YCA Secretary, Donna Yoshimura.
With the last in a three-part series on the YCA Graduation Ceremony, (ICYMI, we shared video highlights, a hula dancer, and now some still photos) I extend my heartfelt thanks and alohacongrats to the staff of YCA for all their hard work and send my best wishes for an AlohaMerry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season.🎄
I attended the fall 2020 graduation for the Youth Challenge Academy Class 53 at their Kalaeloa campus on November 25. Hawai'i Youth Challenge Academy O'ahu has been fortunate because they’ve been able to continue on-site operations with the cadets during the COVID pandemic. As I do at all of their graduations, I prepared an Honorary Certificate for each of the graduating cadets and presented a $500 scholarship for one graduate from the Kalaeloa campus. I also contribute a $500 scholarship for one deserving graduate at the Hilo Youth Challenge campus.
As mentioned previously, Cadet Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright was the recipient of the O‘ahu Mike Gabbard scholarship and also performed the beautiful hula dance. After leaving YCA, she plans to continue her studies at Leeward Community College, in the automotive arena.
I love this program. We live a few blocks away from the Kalaleloa Campus, and even though their reveille bugling begins at 4:30 am, I’ve yet to receive any complaints from neighboring constituents. Also, thankfully, I’m not a light sleeper. 😉
As background, Youth Challenge provides 16 to 18-year-old "AT-PROMISE"; students a second chance to obtain their high school diploma and become successful, responsible, and productive citizens. The Academy instills discipline and a sense of self-worth by using military training to significantly improve the life skills and employment potential of young people. The program's eight core components focus on the holistic development of the youth and include: academic excellence, life-coping skills, job skills, health & hygiene, responsible citizenship, community service, leadership/followership, and physical fitness. The five-month residential phase of the program is followed by a year-long mentoring relationship with specially trained members of each graduate's community.
The Academy was founded in August 1994 and is administered by the Hawai‘i Army National Guard. It has campuses in Kalaeloa on O‘ahu and in Hilo on the island of Hawai‘i. Each cycle, the program accepts approximately 150 young people. Since its inception, the program has graduated over 6,500 students with 80 percent of them earning their high school diploma. Keep up the good work cadets, YCA Director Sina Atanoa, and all the YCA staff!
(Pictured in order: w/YCA Dir., Sina Atanoa; w/Augie T.; w/scholarship recipient, Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright; w/City Councilmember-elect, Augie T.; Honolulu Prosecutor-elect, Steve Alm; Matt Taufate’e from First L.A.P. (life after prison) Ministries and Peacemakers); w/YCA Secretary, Donna Yoshimura.
With 20-25,000 polar bears living in the wild, the species is not currently endangered, but its future is far from certain. In 1973, Canada, the United States, Denmark, Norway and the former U.S.S.R. signed the International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears and their Habitat. This agreement restricts the hunting of polar bears and directs each nation to protect their habitats, but it does not protect the bears against the biggest man-made threat to their survival: climate change. If current warming trends continue unabated, scientists believe that polar bears will be vulnerable to extinction within the next century.Of all of the wildlife species in the Arctic, the polar bear is perhaps the most fitting icon for this ecoregion. Its amazing adaptations to life in the harsh Arctic environment and dependence on sea ice make them so impressive, and yet so vulnerable. Large carnivores are sensitive indicators of ecosystem health. Polar bears are studied to gain an understanding of what is happening throughout the Arctic as a polar bear at risk is often a sign of something wrong somewhere in the arctic marine ecosystem. Information provided by WWF
With the last in a three-part series on the YCA Graduation Ceremony, (ICYMI, we shared video highlights, a hula dancer, and now some still photos) I extend my heartfelt thanks and alohacongrats to the staff of YCA for all their hard work and send my best wishes for an AlohaMerry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season.🎄
I attended the fall 2020 graduation for the Youth Challenge Academy Class 53 at their Kalaeloa campus on November 25. Hawai'i Youth Challenge Academy O'ahu has been fortunate because they’ve been able to continue on-site operations with the cadets during the COVID pandemic. As I do at all of their graduations, I prepared an Honorary Certificate for each of the graduating cadets and presented a $500 scholarship for one graduate from the Kalaeloa campus. I also contribute a $500 scholarship for one deserving graduate at the Hilo Youth Challenge campus.
As mentioned previously, Cadet Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright was the recipient of the O‘ahu Mike Gabbard scholarship and also performed the beautiful hula dance. After leaving YCA, she plans to continue her studies at Leeward Community College, in the automotive arena.
I love this program. We live a few blocks away from the Kalaleloa Campus, and even though their reveille bugling begins at 4:30 am, I’ve yet to receive any complaints from neighboring constituents. Also, thankfully, I’m not a light sleeper. 😉
As background, Youth Challenge provides 16 to 18-year-old "AT-PROMISE"; students a second chance to obtain their high school diploma and become successful, responsible, and productive citizens. The Academy instills discipline and a sense of self-worth by using military training to significantly improve the life skills and employment potential of young people. The program's eight core components focus on the holistic development of the youth and include: academic excellence, life-coping skills, job skills, health & hygiene, responsible citizenship, community service, leadership/followership, and physical fitness. The five-month residential phase of the program is followed by a year-long mentoring relationship with specially trained members of each graduate's community.
The Academy was founded in August 1994 and is administered by the Hawai‘i Army National Guard. It has campuses in Kalaeloa on O‘ahu and in Hilo on the island of Hawai‘i. Each cycle, the program accepts approximately 150 young people. Since its inception, the program has graduated over 6,500 students with 80 percent of them earning their high school diploma. Keep up the good work cadets, YCA Director Sina Atanoa, and all the YCA staff!
(Pictured in order: w/YCA Dir., Sina Atanoa; w/Augie T.; w/scholarship recipient, Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright; w/City Councilmember-elect, Augie T.; Honolulu Prosecutor-elect, Steve Alm; Matt Taufate’e from First L.A.P. (life after prison) Ministries and Peacemakers); w/YCA Secretary, Donna Yoshimura.
With the last in a three-part series on the YCA Graduation Ceremony, (ICYMI, we shared video highlights, a hula dancer, and now some still photos) I extend my heartfelt thanks and alohacongrats to the staff of YCA for all their hard work and send my best wishes for an AlohaMerry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season.🎄
I attended the fall 2020 graduation for the Youth Challenge Academy Class 53 at their Kalaeloa campus on November 25. Hawai'i Youth Challenge Academy O'ahu has been fortunate because they’ve been able to continue on-site operations with the cadets during the COVID pandemic. As I do at all of their graduations, I prepared an Honorary Certificate for each of the graduating cadets and presented a $500 scholarship for one graduate from the Kalaeloa campus. I also contribute a $500 scholarship for one deserving graduate at the Hilo Youth Challenge campus.
As mentioned previously, Cadet Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright was the recipient of the O‘ahu Mike Gabbard scholarship and also performed the beautiful hula dance. After leaving YCA, she plans to continue her studies at Leeward Community College, in the automotive arena.
I love this program. We live a few blocks away from the Kalaleloa Campus, and even though their reveille bugling begins at 4:30 am, I’ve yet to receive any complaints from neighboring constituents. Also, thankfully, I’m not a light sleeper. 😉
As background, Youth Challenge provides 16 to 18-year-old "AT-PROMISE"; students a second chance to obtain their high school diploma and become successful, responsible, and productive citizens. The Academy instills discipline and a sense of self-worth by using military training to significantly improve the life skills and employment potential of young people. The program's eight core components focus on the holistic development of the youth and include: academic excellence, life-coping skills, job skills, health & hygiene, responsible citizenship, community service, leadership/followership, and physical fitness. The five-month residential phase of the program is followed by a year-long mentoring relationship with specially trained members of each graduate's community.
The Academy was founded in August 1994 and is administered by the Hawai‘i Army National Guard. It has campuses in Kalaeloa on O‘ahu and in Hilo on the island of Hawai‘i. Each cycle, the program accepts approximately 150 young people. Since its inception, the program has graduated over 6,500 students with 80 percent of them earning their high school diploma. Keep up the good work cadets, YCA Director Sina Atanoa, and all the YCA staff!
(Pictured in order: w/YCA Dir., Sina Atanoa; w/Augie T.; w/scholarship recipient, Kaylen Kekuewa-Wright; w/City Councilmember-elect, Augie T.; Honolulu Prosecutor-elect, Steve Alm; Matt Taufate’e from First L.A.P. (life after prison) Ministries and Peacemakers); w/YCA Secretary, Donna Yoshimura.
Kindergarteners from all corners of Howard County came to IU Kokomo's campus for their first day of college at the Walk Into My Future event. The day is designed to get children accustomed to a college campus and to hopefully inspire them to go to college one day.
we try to grow-up them with the principles of a better world, more civilized .. then it's up to teach them that you can not live without chains.
Kindergarteners from all corners of Howard County came to IU Kokomo's campus for their first day of college at the Walk Into My Future event. The day is designed to get children accustomed to a college campus and to hopefully inspire them to go to college one day.
Kindergarteners from all corners of Howard County came to IU Kokomo's campus for their first day of college at the Walk Into My Future event. The day is designed to get children accustomed to a college campus and to hopefully inspire them to go to college one day.
Kindergarteners from all corners of Howard County came to IU Kokomo's campus for their first day of college at the Walk Into My Future event. The day is designed to get children accustomed to a college campus and to hopefully inspire them to go to college one day.
Harry Taylor impressed the hell out of me. He's running for congress in North Carolina: www.harrytaylorforcongress.com/
Bill Scher is a political writer for the Campaign for America's Future (http://www.ourfuture.org/users/bill-scher), a blogger on the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-scher) and Liberal Oasis (http://liberaloasis.com) as well as the host of the Northampton, MA chapter of Drinking Liberally.