October 15, 2007
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - WAIHONA PUKE: Library
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “She is the repository of learning.”
(Said in admiration of a learned person.)
Erin Cute photo
October 15, 1919: Several women meet at the home of Mrs. S.A.Baldwin and formally create the Maui Women’s Club. Perhaps not surprisingly, Mrs. H.A. Baldwin is elected the Club’s first president. Shortly thereafter, the Club establishes Maui County’s first Public Library on High St. not far from where, in 1928, C.W.Dickey built the Wailuku library that still stands.The women draft a constitution which states the Club’s purpose: “First - To promote Americanism, and second, to take up any line of work which will promote the highest interests of the community.” Any female resident of Maui County was eligible to join, and the first year saw membership grow to 128 women.
October 14, 2007
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - LELE: Fly (as a bird) - PONALO: Fly (the insect)
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Where the odor is bad, there the flies hum.”
October 14, 1922: Flying was about 19 years old, and even newer to the Hawaiian Islands, when then Hawaii Governor W. R. Farrington takes a sea plane from Maui to Honolulu. Near the end of the estimated 60-minute flight, the plane catches fire and is forced to ditch in the sea, well off the coast of Pearl Harbor. Luckily, radio had already been invented, and another sea plane swooped down to the rescue. The governor swam from one plane to another. No one was hurt. The plane sank. Read the rest…
October 13, 2007
Raphael O'Suna
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When I was younger, I thought that man was shipwrecked: that each of us was afloat in a sea of troubles, clinging to some piece of drifting debris, which represented our illusions. I thought that we stayed afloat because of our hopes, dreams, beliefs and expectations.
The human mind, in a body that is healthy, is a remarkable instrument with the ability to produce the imagination of innumerable favorable outcomes. Though we are stranded, clinging to floating illusions, hoping that no one else will disturb us by bringing his weight to bear on our illusory life preserver, we imagine that Laws, Principles, Powers and Persons wish to provide a good outcome for most of us.
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October 12, 2007
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - LOKO ‘INO: Evil
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Be careful lest the result be disastrous to you.”
October 12, 1492: THE BAHAMAS – Native Americans discover a European, Christopher Columbus, wandering lost on the shores of San Salvador Island.
October 12, 2004: KAHULUI – Verizon Hawaii and the nefarious Carlyle Group make their pitch to Maui for Carlyle’s takeover of Hawaii’s telephone service under the name Hawaii Telcom. Read the full Maui News story …
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October 12, 2007
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Council Member Michelle Anderson’s “show me the water” bill is a good start, but it needs a slight change to “show me the water in our county water system.” If a new subdivision wants approval it needs to buy the infrastructure and new water sources for the county water department.
Here’s what will happen if we allow developers to create private water systems. Take Wailea 670/Honua’ula. They drill a well above an existing well. Their pumping dries the lower well. That user now has to go to the county for water.
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October 11, 2007
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - MOKU: Ship, boat
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Cross the sea as a bird.”
October 11, 1864: During the Civil War, the CSS Shenendoah changes course and decides not to head for Hawaii, for fear of being overtaken by Union ships waiting in port at Pearl Harbor and Lahaina. The Confederate ship was on a heading south from the Aleutian Islands toward Hawaii, when its captain, James Waddell, thought better of it and changed course toward islands off the coast of Mexico and Central America, with the intent of destroying any Union ships sailing from the West Coast of the US to Hawaii.
The Shenendoah was built in Glasgow, Scotland in 1863. Many in Europe at that time were very sympathetic to the Confederate cause - slavery - and supported the Confederacy by paying for the ship. It sailed from Liverpool with a full crew to circumnavigate the globe (the only Confederate ship to do so), to wreak havoc on international shipping which supplied the Northern Union, and to disrupt commerce of goods to other countries from the North. The idea, of course, was to hurt the Union economy.
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October 11, 2007
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Typhoon Krosa aimed squarely at China over this past weekend, threatening lives and property. What’s a government to do?
Well, if you’re the Chinese Communists, you evacuate 1,400,000 people to safety in 48 hours. Everyone from international analysts to the American Red Cross was impressed with the efficiency, order, and even calm which prevailed during this undertaking. Everyone relocated is being sheltered and fed as the storm moves in.
Kudos to China.
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October 9, 2007
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MAUI CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE JOSEPH CARDOZA RULES AGAINST THE SUPERFERRY
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - LA’AU: Medicine
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Look for the plant that stands alone.”
October 9, 1944: Penicillin comes to Maui.
First developed in 1943, the U.S. Government kept production of the antibiotic for men serving in the armed forces, at war. Penicillin is credited with a major reduction in deaths and amputations caused by bacterial infections among World War II’s Allied forces, saving an estimated 12-15% of lives.
Toward the end of 1943, penicillin was manufactured on Oahu, and distributed to service men there. Its first use was to stem the tide of sexually transmitted diseases, especially gonorrhea, which was rampant among servicemen. It was near the end of the following year that the drug was flown to Maui and neighbor islands for public distribution.
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