The month of August is named after the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar. So let’s go roamin’…
It was expected, but it was still a chicken skin moment when the Hawaii High School Athletic Association recently announced that surfing will become an official high school sport next spring, including a state championship. What a great way to encourage the sport’s growth and to watch our next generation of world-class surfers rise to the crest.
The Maui Interscholastic League (MIL) took the initiative as it sanctioned surfing in high schools as an official sport in 2014. It would be great to see even more focus placed on surfing and also volleyball (both beach and indoors) as sports that Hawai`i can somewhat claim as its own while pointing to those sports rich histories here.
While it only seems like 147 years that we’ve been watching the pitfalls and perils of the historic Falls of Clyde iron-hulled sailing ship, that’s actually how long the sailing vessel has been around. But we’ve been hearing about restoration and rotting with this ship for decades, with threats of scuttling or sinking popping up every year or so like a wayward buoy.
Well, the scrapping of the ship, formerly designated as a National Historic Landmark, began recently. After spending years tied down at Honolulu Harbor, the Falls will fall, as it’ll soon be put out to sea one last time. Damaged by Hurricane Iwa (1982), sold numerous times, put up for auction, the ship is a mini-series waiting for a script. But soon, it’ll be just a memory as maritime mourners will ruminate: alas, this ship has sailed…
Like 15 other states, the #1 job in Hawai`i (according to online publisher Visual Capitalist) is fast food workers. 10 states each claim retail sales & cashiers, home health aides, or operations managers & specialists as their #1 employers. Health-conscious watchdogs might suggest that the more fast food workers we have- and since residents here live the longest of any state- the more home health aides we’ll need, but that’s a different discussion.
It will be interesting (or frightening) to see what increasing AI usage and automation portends for service jobs in the coming years. The jobs apparently most protected from AI? Emergency medical technicians, healthcare social workers, lawyers, medical & health services managers, HR managers, and construction trade supervisors. Kids… pursue training or an education- vocational/trade, or general/academic.
Think about it…