INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAI‘I: Has Hawai‘i Turned a Corner in the Homeless Crisis? | Program
INSIGHTS returns with an examination of the State’s homeless plan. How do we measure its effectiveness, and what pending legislation could serve as the breakthrough Hawai‘i needs? According to the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Hawai‘i still has the highest per capita population of homeless in the country. However, the council’s Western Regional Coordinator, Katy Miller, says “things have started to gel” in the Islands. What do you think? Has Hawai‘i turned a corner in the homeless crisis?
ACL FCACM DAY 1 Part 2
The Recognize, Assist, Include, Support and Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act was signed into law on January 8, 2018. It directed the establishment of the Family Caregiving Advisory Council (FCAC) to identify best practices and provide recommendations on supporting to family caregivers. The FCAC includes 15 members of the public from across the country who reflect the diversity of family caregivers and the people they support, as well as representatives of federal departments and agencies that play role in these issues. The FCAC is holding its first meeting Aug. 28-29 in Washington, D.C. To learn more, visit ACL.gov/RAISE.
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PBS Hawaii - HIKI NŌ | HIKI NŌ Can Do Festival 2015 | Full Program
Premiere Airdate: September 3, 2015
This special presentation of all stories nominated for the 2015 HIKI NŌ Awards represents the best of the best from the 2014-2015 school year. The 34 nominees include middle and high schools from Oahu, Maui, Hawaii Island and Kauai. The award categories include: Best Personal Profile, Best News Writing, Best Home- Base School, Best Cinematography and Best Overall Story. This presentation was screened for live audiences at theaters on Maui, Hawaii Island (Hilo and Kona), Kauai and Oahu. The winners will be announced by PBS Hawaii President and CEO Leslie Wilcox and Bank of Hawaii Foundation President Donna Tanoue in a livestream presentation on Thursday, September 24 at 3:00 pm on PBSHawaii.org.
Argument could be made of 'less civilian damage' from drone strikes than precision strikes
For an in-depth view of the use of drones in warfare, anchor Mike Walter sits down with Thomas Lynch, Research Fellow at the National Defense University.
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Gulberg HOA Unit 8 21st Century Civil Aviation pt 2
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)
WestJet | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:47 1 History
00:01:56 1.1 1996-1999: First flights
00:04:20 1.2 2000-2003: Domestic expansion
00:07:14 1.3 2004-2006: International expansion
00:09:51 1.4 2007-2009: Continued growth
00:13:34 1.5 2010-2016: Overseas expansion
00:18:24 1.6 2017-2019: Transition to full-service carrier
00:22:32 2 Corporate affairs
00:22:42 2.1 Ownership and structure
00:23:53 2.1.1 WestJet Encore
00:24:31 2.1.2 WestJet Link
00:25:04 2.1.3 Swoop
00:25:39 2.2 Business trends
00:25:56 3 Destinations
00:28:59 4 Alliances and codeshare agreements
00:29:10 4.1 History
00:31:50 4.2 Codeshare agreements
00:32:04 4.3 Joint venture with Delta Air Lines
00:33:00 5 Fleet
00:33:09 5.1 Current fleet
00:33:27 5.2 Fleet strategy
00:38:36 5.3 Historical fleet
00:39:54 5.4 Fleet timeline
00:40:03 5.5 Livery
00:42:21 5.5.1 Special Liveries
00:42:29 6 Services
00:42:38 6.1 Inflight services
00:42:48 6.1.1 Inflight entertainment
00:45:00 6.1.2 Inflight food and beverage
00:46:18 6.2 Cabins
00:46:27 6.2.1 Business
00:47:09 6.2.2 Premium
00:49:21 6.2.3 Economy
00:50:32 6.3 Airport lounges
00:52:15 7 Awards and recognition
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
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Speaking Rate: 0.8086062122262101
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-A
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian airline founded in 1996. It began as a low-cost alternative to the country's competing major airlines. WestJet provides scheduled and charter air service to 100+ destinations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
WestJet is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier, behind Air Canada, operating an average of 777 flights and carrying over 66,130 guests per day. In 2018, WestJet carried 25.49 million passengers, making it the ninth-largest airline in North America by passengers carried.
WestJet is a public company with more than 13,000 employees, and is not part of any airline alliance. It operates three variants of the Boeing 737 Next Generation family, the Boeing 737 MAX, as well as Boeing 767 and Boeing 787 aircraft, on select long-haul routes. WestJet has two direct subsidiaries, WestJet Encore which operates the Bombardier Q400, and WestJet Link, which operates the Saab 340B. The airline's headquarters is located adjacent to the Calgary International Airport.In 2018, WestJet had passenger revenues of CAN$4.733 billion.
Westjet | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:30 1 History
00:01:39 1.1 1996-1999: First flights
00:03:41 1.2 2000-2003: Domestic expansion
00:06:08 1.3 2004-2006: International expansion
00:08:22 1.4 2007-2009: Continued growth
00:11:31 1.5 2010-2016: Overseas expansion
00:15:35 1.6 2017-2019: Transition to full-service carrier
00:19:05 2 Corporate affairs
00:19:14 2.1 Ownership and structure
00:20:16 2.1.1 WestJet Encore
00:20:49 2.1.2 WestJet Link
00:21:18 2.1.3 Swoop
00:21:49 2.2 Business trends
00:22:04 3 Destinations
00:24:39 4 Alliances and codeshare agreements
00:24:49 4.1 History
00:27:06 4.2 Codeshare agreements
00:27:19 4.3 Joint venture with Delta Air Lines
00:28:07 5 Fleet
00:28:15 5.1 Current fleet
00:28:32 5.2 Fleet strategy
00:32:52 5.3 Historical fleet
00:33:59 5.4 Fleet timeline
00:34:08 5.5 Livery
00:36:05 5.5.1 Special Liveries
00:36:13 6 Services
00:36:22 6.1 Inflight services
00:36:31 6.1.1 Inflight entertainment
00:38:24 6.1.2 Inflight food and beverage
00:39:31 6.2 Cabins
00:39:39 6.2.1 Business
00:40:16 6.2.2 Premium
00:42:07 6.2.3 Economy
00:43:08 6.3 Airport lounges
00:44:36 7 Awards and recognition
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
Speaking Rate: 0.959598374300435
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-A
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian airline founded in 1996. It began as a low-cost alternative to the country's competing major airlines. WestJet provides scheduled and charter air service to 100+ destinations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
WestJet is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier, behind Air Canada, operating an average of 777 flights and carrying over 66,130 guests per day. In 2018, WestJet carried 25.49 million passengers, making it the ninth-largest airline in North America by passengers carried.
WestJet is a public company with more than 13,000 employees, and is not part of any airline alliance. It operates three variants of the Boeing 737 Next Generation family, the Boeing 737 MAX, as well as Boeing 767 and Boeing 787 aircraft, on select long-haul routes. WestJet has two direct subsidiaries, WestJet Encore which operates the Bombardier Q400, and WestJet Link, which operates the Saab 340B. The airline's headquarters is located adjacent to the Calgary International Airport.In 2018, WestJet had passenger revenues of CAN$4.733 billion.