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Home. A place to clean up, rejuvenate, rest. Above all, rest. We all need one, and the new voyaging canoe Mo‘okiha O Pi‘ilani is no different. The canoe needs a home, their crew says. And it needs it now.
“Mostly, I’m looking for a safe berthing place for this canoe where kids can get out of the bus and walk over and step onto it,” Tim Gilliom, the canoe’s captain, told me recently. “They have to be able to step onto it. Kupuna too. The governor can’t even … More
What do you get when you put Hawaii, a Good Samaritan, and a hit and run driver together? A Hawaiian hero grabbing his skateboard and chasing down the crazy driver before he can hit or kill anyone else.
That was the scene on the big island of Hawaii in Kailua-Kona, when Good Samaritan, Joshua Lambus, did some sidewalk and street surfing, skateboarding in pursuit of the hit and run driver who had already taken out a 13-year-old girl and judging by his reported ongoing ridiculous driving, was destined to kill or … More
In the competition divers need to perform 4 dives each. Two easy dives called required dives and two difficult dives called optional dives. The easy dives are to show form and grace and the difficult dives are about doing as many somersaults and twists as possible. There are rules to follow about the types dives the athletes can perform and the direction of take off as well. How hey choose it? How they decide execute one dive and not a different one.