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One Big Hawaiian Music Thread

Please post any Hawaiian music you like in this thread (Jawaiian and contemporary is okay too )

Let's start with:

Charles Philip "Gabby" or "Pops" Pahinui (April 22, 1921 - October 13, 1980) was a slack-key guitarist.

Gabby was born Charles Kapono Kahahawaii Jr. and later hānai-ed into the Pahinui family as Charles Philip Pahinui and raised in the Kaka'ako area of Honolulu in the 1920s. It was impoverished at the time, very much resembling a shanty-town with small cluttered buildings and tin roofs falling apart.[citation needed] He spent his childhood supporting his family by selling newspapers and shining shoes. He dropped out of school after 5th grade at Pokukaina School.

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The Hawaiian Renaissance of the '70s launched a cultural reawakening of all things Hawaiian. Gabby played an important part in the rise of this Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance. First there were the albums recorded through the 1960s with the enormously popular and influential Sons of Hawaii, which he started with `ukulele virtuoso Eddie Kamae: their self-titled debut album (Hula HS 503, 1961); Music of Old Hawai`i (Hula HS 506, 1964); and Folk Music of Hawai`i (Panini 1001, 1971).

As he enjoyed his new success in the '70s, his life-long drinking and a bad road crew accident left his health failing. He retired from road work but took up teaching in the City and County's cultural programs.
He died in 1980 at the age of 59.

The Honolulu Star Bulletin Newspaper stated about Pahinui "The thing about Gabby Pahinui," says DeSoto Brown, a Hawaiian cultural-history expert whose brother worked with Pahinui, "was not only that he was an outstanding musician and entertainer, and a central figure -- maybe THE central figure -- of the Hawaiian Renaissance in the '70s, but that he was an inspiration to others. Thousands of Hawaiian kids learned that they were worthy as a people because of Gabby's example."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Pahinui

This one is in English, the rest are in Hawaiian:

Libya's new battle is getting young people into jobs

By Katy Watson Business Reporter, BBC News, Tripoli
11 December 2011 Last updated at 11:01 ET

It is a sunny winter afternoon in downtown Tripoli. Martyrs' Square - known as Green Square under Gaddafi rule - is bustling again.

Libyans are returning to their daily lives after a brutal year of fighting and watching over them is twenty-three-year old Abdul Aziz Masood.

Sat in the driver's seat of his battered pick-up truck, he's armed with a 20-year-old sniper rifle.

Life for Abdul Aziz has changed dramatically. This time last year he was a student. But now he's taken on a new job - he says he needs to protect Libya until stability returns.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16110295

It's a really interesting article on post-conflict transition. Many of the same dynamics are relevant to gang life in America. Hope you find it thought provoking. Please discuss the subject of the article and not the whole on-running debate over "intervention" in Libya.

DU3 Hawai'i People and Friends- Check-In!

I'm back in SoCal now for awhile, but I've lived in Kaimuki and Palolo (Oahu for those that don't leave the Outer Islands) - All are welcome including "Visitors" to the Islands!

Let's see, we've got:



Lau Lau - can't forget that now.



Chicken Katsu - I like mine from Gracies or otherwise drenched in curry



Beef Curry



A Zippy's Chili Hot Dog Bento



And some Leonard's Malasadas - Who's Malasadas? Leonards Malasadas

What'd everyone else bring?

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The State of the Progressive Movement

We believe in community, security and liberty and we will never back down. We want to hear what these values mean to you and hear your ideas on how to move America forward.

Please take a moment to a let us know your thoughts.

What do our shared values mean to you?

What should be our priorities for the coming year?

How will we work together to move America forward in 2011?

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/activities/424?t=hp

Democracy for America wants to know! Be good; short and sweet. Someone probably does have to read these submissions.

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Note to hosts: I consider political cartoons reading as they most often contain text, are part of newspapers, and hopefully will draw more people into this forum. I see Video and Multimedia being more about photojournalism in the "image" sense.

When I got my second Covid vaccine. They told me to keep my card.

It might come in handy if I needed to travel. Do you think the vaccination works in place of a negative test since vaccinated individuals can still carry the virus but be asymptomatic?