January 29, 2008
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 Free Thinkers Day
Day 29 of 2008
337 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pua’i Wai: Fountain
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Yia: Year
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The lava is heaped at the house of Kaupo.”
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — World Clock
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Barack Obama South Carolina victory speech
January 29th, 1960: Visitors and residents on the Hana side of Maui report that at night they can see an orange glow from the southern tip of the Big Island. No surprise there: in perhaps the largest eruption recorded in modern Hawaiian times, Kilauea now has seven fountains of lava gushing up to five hundred feet high. The molten rock falls to earth and forms two wide and fast moving rivers that quickly make their way to the ocean.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 29th
- 1613: Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
- 1802: John Beckley of Virginia is appointed to be the first Librarian of Congress
- 1834: President Jackson orders the first use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute
- 1861: Kansas becomes the 34th state
- 1877: Congress establishes the Electoral Commission
- 1886: The first successful gasoline-driven car is patented (Karl Benz, Karlsruhe)
- 1919: The 18th Amendment is ratified and Prohibition goes into effect
- 1979: President Carter commutes Patricia Hearst’s 7-year sentence to 2 years
- 1989: The Episcopal church appoints its first female bishop
- 1990: Former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood, goes on trial in Anchorage, AK
- 1998: A bomb explodes at an abortion clinic in Birmingham Alabama, killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse
BORN ON THIS DAY — January 29th
- 1700: Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician
- 1737: Thomas Paine, political essayist
- 1843: William McKinley, 25th US president (R)
- 1866: Romain Rolland, writer
- 1874: John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist
- 1880: W C Fields, actor
- 1908: Adam Clayton Powell, (Rep-D-NY)
- 1912: Professor Irwin Corey, comedian
- 1923: Paddy Chayevsky, dramatist
- 1939: Germaine Greer, feminist/author
- 1945: Tom Selleck, actor
- 1954: Oprah Winfrey, TV host/actress
- 1974: Sara Gilbert, actress
January 28, 2008
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National Kazoo Day
Day 28 of 2008
338 days left in this year |
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kaupolena: Ration
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Bensin: Gasoline
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A crab has claws that break off easily.”
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — World Clock
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Barack Obama South Carolina victory speech
January 28th, 1974: OPEC rears its ugly head in 1973, and by 1974 the flow of oil shrinks to a trickle here on Maui. Several fights break out at pumps statewise, and the state legislature passes new gas rationing rules.If you have a quarter tank of gas in your car — you can’t buy any fuel. You can buy gas on odd days if your plate ends in an odd number, and even days if your place ends in even numbers.
Gas is no longer sold on weekends — period.
Not one to take an attack on their gas-guzzling freedoms lightly, Americans fight back with two Gulf wars to protect their access to oil — even at outrageously high prices. One bumper sticker seems to sum up the ignorant attitude Americans have on the subject: “What is their sand doing over our oil?”
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 28th
- 1851: Northwestern University is chartered (Evanston Illinois)
- 1860: Britain formally returns the Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
- 1902: The Carnegie Institute is established in Washington DC
- 1909: U.S. military forces leave Cuba for the 2nd time
- 1915: The U.S. Coast Guard is created
- 1916: President Woodrow Wilson appoints Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court
- 1932: The first U.S. state unemployment insurance act is enacted (Wisconsin)
- 1932: Japanese forces occupy Shanghai
- 1960: The first photograph is bounced off the Moon and received on Earth
- 1986: The 25th Space Shuttle (Challenger 10) explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all aboard: teacher Christa McAuliffe (1st civilian on a Shuttle mission), Dr Judith Arlene Resnik, USAF Major Ellison S Onizuka, Astronaut Francis R Scobee, USN Commander Michael J Smith and Astronuat Ronald E McNair
BORN ON THIS DAY — January 28th
- 1775: Peter the Great, Russian Czar
- 1853: Jose Marti, poet/essayist/politician
- 1855: William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine
- 1869: Ozaki Koyo, novelist/essayist/haiku poet
- 1887: Arthur B. Rubinstein, pianist/composer
- 1912: Jackson Pollack, abstract artist
- 1929: Claes Oldenburg, U.S. Pop artist
- 1933: Susan Sontag, author/film director
- 1936: Alan Alda, actor
- 1958: Sarah McLachlan, rock singer
- 1959: Kathryn Morris, actress (“Cold Case”)
- 1963: Danny Spitz, heavy metal guitarist
- 1980: Nick Carter, singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1981: Elijah Wood, actor (“Lord of the Rings” movies)
January 27, 2008
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Chocolate Cake Day
Day 27 of 2008
339 days left in this year |
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kokoleka: Chocolate
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Pono: Goodness, uprightness
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “One meets misfortune, all meet misfortune.”
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — World Clock
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Barack Obama South Carolina victory speech
January 27th, 1942: The military governor of the territory of Hawaii issues a strong warning to merchants on Oahu, Maui and the Big Island — stop price gouging. Just seven weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the shipping lanes were struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy while dealing with new rules and regulations surrounding the importation of goods, as well as the commondeering of ships for war purposes. As a result, the flow of goods to Maui and the rest of Hawaii slowed, forcing pressure on prices to rise.
The governor was having none of it, and issued a price list for potatoes, onions, rice, bananas, fish and cheese, thus making Hawaii the first part of the United States to impose a rationing and pricing system during World War II.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 27th
- 1302: Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
- 1662: The first American lime kiln begins operation, Providence, RI
- 1880: Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp
- 1888: the National Geographic Society is officially incorporated
- 1915: U.S. Marines occupy Haiti
- 1964: Margaret Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican President bid
- 1967: Launchpad fire aboard Apollo 1, kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
- 1973: The U.S. military draft officially ends
- 1973: U.S. & Vietnam sign peace agreement ending the longest U.S. war
BORN ON THIS DAY — January 27th
- 1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer
- 1832: Lewis Carroll author
- 1850: Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation of Labor
- 1885: Jerome Kern, Broadway composer
- 1900: Hyman G Rickover, U.S. Admiral
- 1900: James Cromwell, actor
- 1918: Elmore James, musician
- 1921: Donna Reed, actress
- 1930: Bobby “Blue” Bland, blues singer
- 1936: Troy Donahue, actor
- 1944: 64 Nick Mason, rock musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1948: Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer
- 1951: Brian Downey, rock drummer
- 1955: John G. Roberts, Chief Justice US Supreme Court
- 1961: Martin Degville, rock musician
- 1961: Rudi Mauger, rock musician (Crew Cuts)
- 1964: Bridgitt Fonda, actress
- 1972: Josh Randall, actor (“Ed”)
- 1976: Kevin Denney, country singer
January 26, 2008
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Nat’l Seed Swap Day
Day 26 of 2008
340 days left in this year |
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lolo uila: Computer
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Komputa: Computer
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “They come together in the gray smoke.”
TODAY – January 26th, 2008: The 15th E-Cycling event is held in Maui County, in the War Memorial Stadium Parking Lot, on Kanaloa Ave., in Wailuku, for individuals, between 9 am and 1 pm. More than 100 tons of used computer equipment will be processes in two days during the event. The Friday materials come from businesses, Saturday is the day open to the public.
Individuals may pick up as much free computer parts as they can use at the salvage area. People may also arrive by 9 am and receive a number. At noon, free computer systems are given out in numerical order, as long as supplies last.Several businesses will also have tables of merchandise for sale, including OfficeMax, Clearwire, Cartridgeworld, and others.
Technical materials with electronic circuit boards – televisions, computers, audio equipment, etc. – cannot go to the landfill. People may bring in equipment, used or not, for recycling and reuse. The service is free of charge.
For more information, call the E-Cycling hotline at 573-4018.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 26th
- 1531: An earthquake in Lisbon kills 30,000 people
- 1784: Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over the eagle as America’s symbol
- 1787: Daniel Shays & followers attack arsenal at Springfield, Mass
- 1788: Capt Arthur Phillip lands in Sydney Aust to start a penal colony
- 1838: Tennessee becomes first state to prohibit alcohol
- 1841: Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
- 1871: American income tax repealed. Would that it had lasted!
- 1926: Television first demonstrated (J.L. Baird, London)
- 1954: Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
- 1989: AT&T reports first loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
- 1989: Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
- 1989: U.S. computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
BORN ON THIS DAY — January 26th
- 1880: Douglas MacArthur, general
- 1884: Roy Chapman Andrews, scientist/explorer
- 1912: Cora Baird, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
- 1925: Paul Newman, racer/actor
- 1928: Eartha Kitt, singer/actress
- 1929: Jules Feiffer, cartoonist
- 1935: Bob Ueker, actor/sportsdcaster
- 1942: Scott Glenn, actor
- 1946: Gene Siskel, movie critic
- 1949: David Straitham, actor
- 1957: Eddie Van Halen, rock guitarist
- 1958: Anita Baker, singer
- 1958: Ellen DeGeneress, actress
- 1961: Wayne Gretzky, hockey hall-of-famer
January 26, 2008
Raphael O'Suna
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In the stock market it is better to sell too early than too late. You can’t get rich taking small profits, but you’ll never become poor either.
When you can’t bear to look at stock quotes, that is the time to buy. Never be afraid to buy hidden value.
When the drums are beating and all the voices are repeating, do the opposite. For no one tells others to sell until he has. And when all have sold, buyers remain. And vice versa, no one tells others to buy, until he has. And when all have bought, only sellers remain.
The current decline has been unnecessarily engineered. No metaphysical shadow has crossed the paths of our souls. Our psychology at its core remains positive, hopeful and sound. It is only the surface personality which has been damaged.
Danger brings opportunity. If you wait until the falling knife has stuck itself into the floor and stopped itself from shaking side to side, you will not only miss those first few days of bounce back, you might either never get back in, or miss most of the easy money.
– Raphael O’Suna, Haiku
January 25, 2008
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Opposite Day
Day 25 of 2008
341 days left in this year |
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ku‘e: Contrary
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Arasait: Opposite
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Seek life outside.”
January 25th, 1919: By emergency proclamation of the territorial government of Hawaii, all public enclosed places, including theaters, schools and even churches, are closed due to the flu epidemic sweeping the world. 
Known as the “Spanish Flu,” the virus that swept the globe eventually killed between 20 and 40 million people. That’s more people than died in all of World War I. It’s more people than died in the great bubonic plague outbreak in the late 1300s. And much like the bubonic plague which spawned the nursery rhyme, “Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down,” the flu pandemic spawned many children’s songs, including a jump rope ditty like this: “I had a little bird, it’s name was Enza, I opened the window, and in-flu-enza.”
There are no records indicating how many people in Hawaii, or on Maui, died from this disease. Coming as it did at the end of World War I, the flu racked the country, already tired and devastated from the European fighting. So widespread and infectious was it that the life expectancy of an American dropped by 10 years during this period. Most victims either drown in their own mucus and blood or suffocated from infected lungs that were unable to process oxygen.
It is speculated that the flu began in China as a variation on a common strain, and rapidly made its way overland to the theater of war in Europe, where tired populations and soldiers were very susceptible. The first known American case of the flu was in Boston in late 1918, where troop ships flooded the harbor after the war.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 25th
- 1504: Michelangelo completes the statue of David
- 1533: England’s King Henry VIII secretly marries Anne Boleyn
- 1802: Napoleon is elected president of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
- 1907: Julia Ward Howe is the first woman elected to the National Institute of Arts & Letters
- 1915: Transcontinental telephone service is inaugurated
- 1918: Russia is declared to be a republic of the Soviets
- 1919: Founding of the League of Nations
- 1949: The first popular elections are held in Israel
- 1959: The first transcontinental commercial jet flight in the U.S. (LA to NY for $301)
- 1964: Beatles first U.S. hit goes #1 (“I Want to Hold Your Hand”)
- 1993 Sears announces closing its catalog sales department after 97 years
BORN ON THIS DAY — January 25th
- 1627: Robert Boyle, physicist/chemist/author
- 1759: Robert Burns, Scottish poet
- 1874: Somerset W Maugham, novelist/poet
- 1882: Virginia Woolf, author
- 1938: Etta James, blues singer
- 1946: Ronnie Brandon, rocker (McCoys)
- 1950: Michael Cotton, rocker (Tubes)
- 1953: Malcolm Green, rocker
- 1954: Richard Finch, rock bassist (KC & Sunshine)
- 1955: Joe Strummer, rock vocalist/guitarist (Clash)
- 1958: Gary Tibbs, rocker (Roxy Music)
- 1960: Andy Cox, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals)
- 1963: Carl Fysh, rocker (Brother Beyond)
- 1971: Ana Ortiz, actress (“Ugly Betty”)
- 1971: Alicia Keys, singer
- 1975: Mia Kirshner, actress
January 31st, 1943: More than 100 men from Maui join the group of 1,500 men from all of Hawaii who are forming a combat team traveling to Mississippi to be trained before serving in the European theater – a surprising term for the World War II front fighting Hitler.What makes this team so special? It’s made entire of Japanese Americans.
