Problem Blog Names

I found out Ritmos Latinos are all over the Internet. I thought I had found a good one. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Now I will try a new one. Amerind Rhythms. (American Indian Rhythms). Might work. I will see what happens tomorrow.

Reorganize

This is taking a lot of time and it has a lot of ramifications to it. But I think I can start the Chinese New Year in pretty good shape. The hits are going down slower because the gain from new readers is getting better than the loss of the scam spam robot hits that had contaminated Blogger Stats. Have been absolutely worthless. There is hope and now introducing the new blog. Ritmos Latinos.

Wahiawa Ballroom Dance Club

Mark your calendars to reserve this special day because
we are expecting YOU!

 

 

Ahui Hou,

Maile Yagi for WBDC

 

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

 

 

We only get news from Wahiawa Ballroom Dance Club and Dot's in Wahiawa. Anyone else? We are for the dancers and any information we can give them will be appreciated by everyone. Perhaps when the new Latin Dance Club is formed, we can give them all the Public Relations that we can, "for the dancers."

 "People Get Ready" by the Impressions

Pub's Side Note: Three of the most powerful tools for marketing a dance organization's services and products is through their Newsletters, Web and Blog sites. The benefits are many. They keep the organization's Name out in front of potential and current members, the media and Ballroom Dance Professionals. It is the most efficient and least expensive PR.

Moving Along

I am pretty close to the point of diminishing returns, posting by myself. The difference will be in the Two Centers who later on, may choose to be Guest Authors. With enough guest authors, the hits will go through the ceiling and the blog, whichever one it is, will be ready for independence. From? From me of course.

"The beginning may be the most important part of the work."

 

I must get other opinions constantly into these blogs. The diversity of opinion and point of view is crucial to the success of our kind of blogging. Those people that contribute information and photos and find it a pleasant diversion can progress into being official Guest Authors. There are no registration fees, no annual or monthly dues, no meetings.

 

"Red Rubber Ball" by Cyrcl

 And you blog whenever you damn well please. I am not being too strict, am I? They can get into the blog, write, publish, and get out by themselves, just using their password to get past Blogger. And they can do it once a day, once a week or once a month. From there it is relatively easy to take photos and post them into the blog for the benefit of all.

I learned that for our dancing blogs, I must build traffic by creating good content and promoting it from the places where my audiences (plural) are. The more individuals and audiences I can get to put in their two cents, the better - Social Media.

Meanwhile we must go forward in our efforts to communicate to everyone and try to get as many of our fellow dancers to agree that it is far better to help people up than to hold them down. Some simply do not understand, it make take awhile. I am certainly glad to have met so many out there that agree.

 

Who said? "I will never allow anyone to do me the injury of hating them."

 

Lualualei Industrial Park.

Looking  more like Paradise if we can live and work here.

Tropic Land LLC proposes to develop an industrial park that would occupy approximately 96 acres on the east side of Lualualei Naval Access Road. The industrial park would consist of approximately 35 lots, averaging two acres each. The project would have a single secured entry off of Lualualei Naval Access Road and a secondary access for fire and emergency purposes.

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us, to talk about the rest of us.

 

The existing linear tree farm will remain as a 30-foot landscaped setback along the Lualualei Road frontage. The north and south property lines have 15-foot setbacks. An additional strip of land, approximately 100 feet wide and mauka of the industrial lots, will be used for drainage improvements and rockfall hazard mitigation.”

 

Beautiful Industrial Park built on the Mainland by people with the smarts to do good for their fellow residents.

The project will be structured under a condominium form of ownership with individual lots and common ownership of internal roads and infrastructure. Tropic Land LLC is planning to seek an I-1 zone for the area that is planned for industrial use. The remainder will remain in the preservation zone.

 

"Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho

The amendment will provide an inventory of industrial space on the Waianae Coast, which does not have a similar facility. The proposed project will be attractive to a mix of light industrial businesses and provide open yard space for storing materials, trucks, and heavy equipment.

The proposed light industrial park and baseyard is a job-producing and economy sustaining land use. The industrial park has the potential to become an employment center offering well-paid jobs that are within convenient commuting distance of Waianae Coast communities. Minimum wage is worth ten times more on this coast than in Honolulu. "And I coulda been home in 20 minutes." None of this Rail Station Humbug.

"And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, the Present Rail Party are lunatics. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing  their lunacy with them does not make them any saner.
 

The anticipated opening is approximately 18 months from receipt of government approvals. The preliminary cost of the light industrial park, based on the conceptual site plan, is estimated at $29 million. A drop in the bucket compare to the new estimated costs of the Rail Disaster. Ten billion dollars, but somebody is gonna make Big Bucks theah.

Slow

It is coming together very slowly. Of course, we are at present hamstrung by the scam, spam robot hits like from the Vampire, bats the most notorious in the Blogger Stats. And Blogger is helpless. We are in the process of trying to find a good hit counter that will gives us something closer to Da Reel Teeng.  Takes a lot of work but we may find a good counter yet, somewhere.

Rosy New Years

Another New Year coming up and yet New Year's eve is like every other night. There is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be  noted - and yet no person has quite the same thoughts on that evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. It may give us another chance to do better.

 

"In some places a rumor without a leg to stand

on will get around some other way."

There is something that our dance society calls each of us when it wants to put us in our place, when it wants to shut us up, when we have been too loud, too big, too opinionated, too successful, too far beyond what is considered acceptable for whatever group we fall into. In town the Creative Researchers And Producers usually decide it. And now there is an all ladies group too, the "Ladies Into Easy Screening."

Our blogs are the beginning of the Soap Box theory in a new mode. Most of the young have never heard of the Soap Box. It happened many year ago before radio, TV and the Internet. A person wanted to be heard and grabbed a Soap Box and took it to Park and got up on it. Hopefully he would be heard but mostly to only a few.

But attempts to be heard have been there for millenniums back. If you remember "The Tragedy of Julius Ceasar" by Shakespeare, written 300 years ago, about something that happened 1700 years before that, there is a good example.

In killing Ceasar, the conspirators make clear that they committed this act for Rome, not for their own purposes and do not attempt to flee the scene. After Caesar's death, Brutus delivers an oration defending his actions, and for the moment, the crowd is on his side.

However, Mark Antony, with a subtle and eloquent speech over Caesar's corpse — beginning with the much-quoted "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" — deftly turns public opinion against the assassins by manipulating the emotions of the common people, in contrast to the rational tone of Brutus's speech, "And Brutus is an honorable man."

"Over The Rainbow" by Bruddah Iz

Our wish for all in the Chinese New Year: "May your hand always be stretched out in help and friendship, never in want."

Rosy New Years

Another New Year coming up and yet New Year's eve is like every other night. There is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be  noted - and yet no person has quite the same thoughts on that evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. It may give us another chance to do better.

 

"In some places a rumor without a leg to stand

on will get around some other way."

There is something that our dance society calls each of us when it wants to put us in our place, when it wants to shut us up, when we have been too loud, too big, too opinionated, too successful, too far beyond what is considered acceptable for whatever group we fall into. In town the Creative Researchers And Producers usually decide it. And now there is an all ladies group too, the "Ladies Into Easy Screening."

Our blogs are the beginning of the Soap Box theory in a new mode. Most of the young have never heard of the Soap Box. It happened many year ago before radio, TV and the Internet. A person wanted to be heard and grabbed a Soap Box and took it to Park and got up on it. Hopefully he would be heard but mostly to only a few.

But attempts to be heard have been there for millenniums back. If you remember "The Tragedy of Julius Ceasar" by Shakespeare, written 300 years ago, about something that happened 1700 years before that, there is a good example.

In killing Ceasar, the conspirators make clear that they committed this act for Rome, not for their own purposes and do not attempt to flee the scene. After Caesar's death, Brutus delivers an oration defending his actions, and for the moment, the crowd is on his side.

However, Mark Antony, with a subtle and eloquent speech over Caesar's corpse — beginning with the much-quoted "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" — deftly turns public opinion against the assassins by manipulating the emotions of the common people, in contrast to the rational tone of Brutus's speech, "And Brutus is an honorable man."

"Over The Rainbow" by Bruddah Iz

Our wish for all in the Chinese New Year: "May your hand always be stretched out in help and friendship, never in want."

The Fabulous Palomar Ballroom

The beautiful Palomar Ballroom, on Vermont Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street in Los Angeles, was built in 1925 and was billed as "the largest and most famous dance hall on the West Coast." The building featured a large mezzanine, a balcony, and a seventy-five hundred square foot patio. The dance floor could accommodate four thousand couples. It must have been a little larger than the Palladium.

"The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business."

 

Admission was big bucks: 40 cents for gentlemen and 25 cents for ladies. Opening night was attended by 20,000, including many of Hollywood's silent screen stars. It soon became a prime venue for the big bands that were rapidly gaining popularity. No Blacks, Orientals or Latinos allowed.

Ten years later, on August 21, 1935, Benny Goodman began his first Palomar engagement, let himself go and that marked the start of the Swing Era. During the last two weeks in 1937, box office sales exceeded 50,000.

"How High The Moon" by Les Paul and Mary Ford

The ballroom hosted popular orchestras and big bands. Nightly radio broadcasts on local station KFLJ attracted large crowds to the "Dining, Dancing, and Entertainment Center of the West." The famed structure was the backdrop for several major Hollywood films that included "The Big Broadcast of 1937," made during Benny Goodman's return engagement, and, "Dancing Coed," which starred Lana Turner and Artie Shaw's band.

By 1939, the Palomar had been completely re-modeled. A modern cooling system was installed, cocktail lounges and soda fountains were added, and the dance floor was enlarged. The exotic Moorish decor was not changed. The admission charges went up to 75 cents for gentlemen and 40 cents for ladies.

Then on October 2, 1939, the Palomar Ballroom burned to the ground.

 

SOS

The Waianae Coast has been taken for all it has for too long. They are tired of it and want no more of it. They would like to live their lives as peaceful as they can without too much interference from the outside. They know what they want and they know that their representatives are not likely to give it to them.

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you - Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to."

 

Line Dancing

So I have tried to introduce our kind of blog and few have understood it. Naturally not, but there is nothing in here to take from them, only to give  to them. That is not very readily understood and these people may be ignorant but they are far from being stupid. The can learn as easily as anyone else.

"I Remember You" by Don Ho

And that is where we can use this blog for its maximum efficiency. But it must be for the good of all. And Talk is Cheap. We must do, slowly and see if we are being helped or being taken. With this blog, some people will be able communicate their opinions for the readers. That is most crucial. Because the blog must get the feedback from the readers for what they want. It is not dictated to from the top the way it has been done for years.

The Articulated Bus in the C bus, the #40 and the #93, would have

been the perfect answer in public transportation for the Waianae

Coast. They won't listen. Yes, we all know.  The Big Bucks in

Profits from the Rail Disaster.

I will be patient and slowly let some of the readers of this blog take it over, I will resign, and they will take over and make their own rules. But for sure it will be closer to the will of the people. Be patient.

 

A Little Closer

The entire enchilada is almost formed, by itself seems like. A holdback is the Vampire scam spam robot hits, they tear up your stats to meaningless shreds of no use to anyone. Then the Two Center is the most important ingredient needed. A person willing to share a little dance information and perhaps a photo or two with their fellow dancers. Must be patient.

Lit And Lat

Everything perking on all cylinders. Received from Aunty Maile: Apparently there are plenty of our fellow reader/dancers that go on cruises. And many tell me of the dancing opportunities aboard ship, sounds pretty good.

 

The Affordable Care Act, the greatest thing to help the non-rich in their Medical bills, was almost knocked out by the Republican Attack Dogs. The worst organization (of the rich) in the US today. the KKK were peanuts in comparison.

 

Richie Fun has a nice write up on City happenings in the famous Town Dancer blog.

  

 

Pub's Side Note: In my Internet surfing I came across that wine may be better than hard liquor for my health. And in another, that to achieve true inner peace you must finish what you start. So far this afternoon, I just finished a bottle of Pinot Noir. I feel better already. Have a nice week.

 

Lit And Lat

Everything perking on all cylinders. Received from Aunty Maile: Apparently there are plenty of our fellow reader/dancers that go on cruises. And many tell me of the dancing opportunities aboard ship, sounds pretty good.

 

The Affordable Care Act, the greatest thing to help the non-rich in their Medical bills, was almost knocked out by the Republican Attack Dogs. The worst organization (of the rich) in the US today. the KKK were peanuts in comparison.

 

Richie Fun has a nice write up on City happenings in the famous Town Dancer blog.

  

 

Pub's Side Note: In my Internet surfing I came across that wine may be better than hard liquor for my health. And in another, that to achieve true inner peace you must finish what you start. So far this afternoon, I just finished a bottle of Pinot Noir. I feel better already. Have a nice week.

 

Hit a Bump

Big trouble in the Blogs, all of a sudden, they went kaplooey. Will test this one with the text only and one graphic. Seem like trouble when I get an windows update. IE screw ups Blogger. I complain and system restore and then it is fine. It has been suggested that I use a different browser. Will have to check on that.

Da Latest

This blog had no changes in the latest reappraisals so it is moving slowly but just fine. I had diluted the readership (too many blogs) and then they were also hampered by the scam spam robot hits. But now the entire enchilada is moving again, slowly but sure.

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief

is more likely to be more foolish than sensible"

I made connection with Facebook under an assumed name and it is only so, so. I got into Google Plus and I really don't know what I am doing there. But I got on Twitter again, and discovered many angles. I got a second and a third Twitter and getting in my good licks for our dance blogs.

The only thing really holding anything up is the lack of Two Centers or Guest Authors. The variety of unique opinion is what will do it. I am getting some interest through the micro blogs, especially Twitter. I look forward to getting rid of my best blog this year.

"I Can Dream, Can't I?" by the Andrews Sisters

Aloha Fun People!
Here is an invitation to lots of fun!  If you want to go, call the name on this poster and get a table together FAST!

 

Note: This message was shared to me by

Verna Hayashi-Nakahodo.

Mahalo nui, -  Maile

 

 

Pub's Side Note: People are beginning to realize that we dance to music. Our favorite music. The latest Rap Waltz that the disc jockey likes so much is not it. We are all aware that dancing to our favorite Rumba, where we gotta dance it,  is not the same as something similar and the DJ says, "You can dance Rumba to it." Auwe.

 

Da Latest

This blog had no changes in the latest reappraisals so it is moving slowly but just fine. I had diluted the readership (too many blogs) and then they were also hampered by the scam spam robot hits. But now the entire enchilada is moving again, slowly but sure.

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief

is more likely to be more foolish than sensible"

I made connection with Facebook under an assumed name and it is only so, so. I got into Google Plus and I really don't know what I am doing there. But I got on Twitter again, and discovered many angles. I got a second and a third Twitter and getting in my good licks for our dance blogs.

The only thing really holding anything up is the lack of Two Centers or Guest Authors. The variety of unique opinion is what will do it. I am getting some interest through the micro blogs, especially Twitter. I look forward to getting rid of my best blog this year.

"I Can Dream, Can't I?" by the Andrews Sisters

Aloha Fun People!
Here is an invitation to lots of fun!  If you want to go, call the name on this poster and get a table together FAST!

 

Note: This message was shared to me by

Verna Hayashi-Nakahodo.

Mahalo nui, -  Maile

 

 

Pub's Side Note: People are beginning to realize that we dance to music. Our favorite music. The latest Rap Waltz that the disc jockey likes so much is not it. We are all aware that dancing to our favorite Rumba, where we gotta dance it,  is not the same as something similar and the DJ says, "You can dance Rumba to it." Auwe.

 

Ready To Roll

We are getting some movement in all the blogs. And it is not all Robot hits. The additional PR in the micros has helped. Now I just have to polish and patiently wait to get one of the blogs independent.

"People commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their
learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom"

Salsa seems to have peaked and Bachata is making good inroads. This type of music and dance has evolved for the young dancers. (under 30.) Let us not turn our collective noses up. The young have always been that way. They feel like jumping around when the music starts, they like to do tricks and the usual excuses go with the new type of music.

Fad dances have been around only a short time, maybe three or four millenniums but in the last three or four decades they seem to last longer. More money spent on hype and it has paid off handsomely for many. The spread internationally has also been easier. Salsa is now being danced around the world. And Bachata is not far behind.

"Moliendo Café por Azucar Moreno.

One good example of music and dance fad is Gangnam Style dancing. "Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1,"  the singer, has become an international sensation. As the song continues to rapidly gain popularity and ubiquity, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, hailed it as a "force for world peace".

Gangnam style is a catchy song. Most fans have not understood almost any word in it but they do know that they like it. They have since become not just inspired by the song, but by the humility and down-to-earth attitude of the artist. They seem to see this guy laugh at himself or make fun of his own "super stardom status." This is a serious artist who does NOT take himself too seriously, and that is more than we can say about most artists out there who are the opposite (unserious artists who takes themselves too seriously).

Gangnam style is definitely danceable, but for the kids. The older, seasoned recreational dancer has had enough experience with fads. Now they have a definite preference for certain music, (The Oldies, but Goodies?) They enjoy dancing to "their" music and they can make their simple moves to the music in endless joy over and over again. The men learn to lead and then women learn to follow and each does their part to make each dance a pleasant experience. And this is our unique world.

Jumbled Up

Wow, this has been a mess, but I am getting it straightened out. The two blogs deleted are a problem only in making the proper changes in the other blogs. From there some name changes were made and I think I have them just about ready for the year. I have also made new definitions for Google+, Facebook and my three Twitter accounts. Whew!

Dancing Show Business

From an old magazine:

Headline: 'Superstars of Dance' premiere: Just, WHY? ... I do recommend viewing the show as if it's an intentionally arranged nightmare ... which is pretty much the definition of what it is ANYWAY ... aggghh, mind melt!" Annie Barrett, Entertainment Weekly.

Headline: 'Superstars': A Blinding Onslaught of Glitz "If last night's premiere of 'Superstars of Dance' is any guide, you'll need a strong stomach -- and preferably an empty one -- to watch the second installment of the show tonight." Sarah Kaufman, the Washington Post.

"The best dancing rules rest on the dancers, and not on the few wheels, on persons and not presumed knowledge, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority"
 

After a few years viewer appreciation has definitely peaked and reached the law of diminishing returns. The costumes for the ladies in Latin and even in Ballroom, had been leaning more to the "sexy," to attract more viewers. But there were many complaints that some costumes are unsuitable for family viewing. While Latin dancing is renowned for its sexy costumes, some viewers reportedly believe some are taking it too far and are “embarrassingly revealing”.

"The hardest math to master is that which enables us
to count our blessings."

In a couple of months we will know for sure if the trend has been confirmed by everyone. In Hawaii, many are looking for the same level of interest, but most simply do not know.

"The Stroll" by The Diamonds

Apprentice Blogger Wanted. Should reside on Oahu and available to attend a dance function now and then. Information can be submitted by email along with a photo or two. I may furnish a point and shoot camera. Two Centers need about two minutes of instruction. Within a week or so, they should be able to decide which blog they wish to Guest Author.

Guest Authors can learn to blog on their own or with little coaching from the sidelines. They can get in, write, include photos, save and publish and get out without saying boo to anyone. From there, they can definitely help to get more fellow bloggers and make one of the blogs independent and able to operate without me.