HALLOWEEN Day 304 of 2007 61 days left in this year

 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY –  ‘APIKI: Treachery, treason
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “It’s a pig strangling.” (The act of a traitor)

Today: Maui Celebrates Halloween with 30,000 on Front Street.  Take the bus to Lahaina …

October 31, 1889: A jury acquits Robert W. Wilcox on the charges of treason for the 1889 rebellion which he led against the “reform government” in his attempt to restore the Hawaiian monarchy to power.Wilcox was born in 1855 on Maui. His parents sent him to Haleakala Boarding School in Makawao. After graduation, Wilcox became a teacher upcountry. In 1880, Wilcox was elected to the Royal Legislature in Honolulu. He represented the citizens of Wailuku and surrounding area.

Wilcox’s political interest grew when he left Hawaii for Italy, where he attended the Royal Military Academy.   While there, Hawaiian King David Kalakaua signed what is called the Bayonet Constitution (so-called because it is said Whites forced him to sign).

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Day 303 of 2007 62 days left in this year Liver Awareness Month

 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY -  MANU: Bird
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “The bird of the day reaps its reward.”

  October 30, 1933: The Hui Manu — a Honolulu-based organization that was formed to devote its efforts to introducing songbirds to the Hawaiian Islands — releases Mockingbirds on Maui, because, evidently, Maui doesn’t have enough birds which sing prettily. (Mockingbirds are members of the Mimidae family, with  about 17 species in three genera.)

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Day 302 of 2007 The Sun is in Scorpio Liver Awareness Month

‘ELE’ELE: Black
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY -

October 29, 1929: Inter-Island Airways (now Hawaiian Airlines) begins service between Oahu and Maui, with its first scheduled flight on the very day that the stock market in New York City collapses (”Black Tuesday”), heralding the beginning of the Great Depression.

1929 was a year marked by many incredible events:

• U.S. securities lose $26 billion between this day and the end of the year.
• The Vatican was established as its own country.
• Al Capone executed the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
• The first Academy Awards were announced.
• Edwin Hubble announced that the universe is expanding.
• Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union, giving Joseph Stalin a free hand to begin an 8-year reign of terror,  during which more than 15 million Soviet citizens would be murdered.

And a ticket from Maui to Oahu cost $7.00. 

Day 301 of 2007 Liver Awareness Month National Chocolate Day

 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY -  UE: Mourn, lament
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “The tears fall, the clouds weep.”

October 28, 1989: Tragedy strikes Maui County — An Island Air commuter flight from Maui heading to Molokai crashes into a cliff near the Halawa Valley on Molokai, killing all 20 passengers and crew aboard. Eight of the passengers were the Molokai High School volleyball team. 

The plane crashed into a cliff just below the ridgeline, spreading debris more than 300 feet away.

Molokai has the world’s steepest sea cliffs, rising vertically more than 3,000 feet from sea level. They have proved deadly a number of times, more recently in 1996, when another commuter plane, this one carrying State Democratic chair Robert McCarthy and Maui County Councilman Tom Morrow crashed into those same cliffs, killing all eight aboard.

 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - HIHIO: Draft (current of air) - ‘OHI WAE: Army draft
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “There is life in a gentle breath of wind.”

October 27, 1940:

According to records, 405,399 American men died in World War II. According to the National Archives, Military Resources section, World War II, 580 men born in Hawaii perished while members of the U.S. military during the war.

No truth, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no liberty. No liberty, no creativity. No creativity, no love. No love, no wisdom. No wisdom, no understanding. No understanding, no compassion. No compassion, no unity. No unity, no community. No community, no brotherhood.

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 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - HONI: Stink, smell
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY -
If you want to get into a fight, you give um da stink eye.”

October 26, 1979

 FULL MOON - 6:52 pm today
 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY -  KOHOLA: Reef
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Be a coral reef that grows into an island.”

October, 2007: In a video comparison of algae blooms off the coast of Honokowai, on West Maui,  the growth of Cladophora algae can be seen in 1991 and this month. View the videos …

Cladophora algae is often related to algae blooms within freshwater systems, though obviously are found in areas of the ocean where fresh water runoff accumulates. This growth causes advanced eutrophication in shoreline waters. Eutrophication is an increase in water-born chemicals. In this case, the chemicals come from dumping from nearby resorts and condominium complexes, as well as passing cruise ships. The algae adheres to submerged things like timber, rocks and reefs, increasing nitrogen and strangling the life out of living reefs. Read the Status of Maui’s Coral Reefs …

The state government has long known about this danger, and the severe decline in reef health around all Hawaiian islands, and in a typically ineffective action has produced a report on the destruction, but has done nothing to alleviate the current stress, nor curtailed development until a solution is found. Visit the Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative …

The MACC. What a wonderful showcase for the arts and a great asset for the county. My first experience at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center was a terrific outdoor concert featuring Bonnie Raitt. Good music under the stars in the midst of happy fans–great fun by anyone’s standards. The MACC brings theatrical productions and internationally known performers live in concert to the island and also supports and features local talent. Music, dance, comedy and drama all find a home here.

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 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY -  AHI: Fire
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Fire will never say that it has had enough.”

October 24, 2000: The United States Drought Monitor, an agency supported by and sent data from the USDA, the National Drought Mitigation Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), releases data showing drought risk for Maui. The risk band stretches from all of West Maui, across the southern part of the central valley, and down the Kihei cost, and up the Haleakala rise past Kula. The Monitor categorizes the drought as D1 (drought first stage) or D2 (drought severe), and predicts longterm impacts on agricultural lands and a sustained increase in risk for wildfires for these areas.

Now, seven years later, and less than a year after a devastating fire at Polipoli, the Maui County Council, developers, the Maui County Water Department, and residents are arguing over voluntary versus mandatory water cutbacks, the efficacy of giving new developments water when some residents have waited more than a decade for a water meter, and even watering park lands. Nothing has changed, nothing is decided.