Maui’s Daylight Savings Time

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Daylight Savings Time

February 9, 1942: Maui joins the rest of the state in implementing daylight savings time, by order of President Franklin Roosevelt. The theory behind the time change is that energy will be saved, allowing more fuel for the war. This also changed the blackout hours on Maui from 7:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. The order is repealed for Hawaii immediately after the war. Hawaii joins Arizona and parts of Indiana as being the only sections of the nation that do not follow daylight savings today. The invention of  ”Daylight Savings”is attributed to Benjamin Franklin when he was in Paris in 1784, though history records that the first person in power to take the idea seriously was by a London builder William Willet in 1907, who wanted his workers to work longer hours.

Surprisingly, the idea is pervasive, and found on every continent including Antarctica.  Only locales around the equator usually do not participate, because at tropical latitudes, little or no daylight is saved.

 HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 9th

  •  1822: The Native American (American Indian) Society organizes 
  • 1825: House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams to be the 6th U.S.
  • 1870: US Grant signs the bill establishing the Federal Meteorological Service
  • 1871: The Federal fish protection office is authorized by Congress 
  • 1885: The first Japanese immigrants arrive in Hawaii 
  • 1922: Snow falls on Mauna Loa Hawaii 
  • 1962: Jamaica signs the agreement to become independent 
  • 1963: The Boeing 727 jet aircraft makes its first commercial flight 
  • 1964: The Beatles make their first appearance on CBS-TV’s “Ed Sullivan Show”
  • 1964: The G.I. Joe doll is introduced 
  • 1969: The world’s largest airplane, the Boeing 747, makes its first commercial flight 
  • 1986: Halley’s Comet reaches its 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) 
  • 1990: The Galileo spacecraft flies by Venus 

 BORN ON THIS DAY — February 9th

  • 1773: William Henry Harrison, Virginia, 9th U.S. President
  • 1874: Amy Lowell, U.S., critic/Imagist poet 
  • 1891: Ronald Colman, actor 
  • 1914: Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper 
  • 1923: Brendan Behan, author/poet 
  • 1923: Kathryn Grayson, singer/actress  
  • 1942: Carole King, (Klein),  pianist/singer 
  • 1943: Joe Pesci,  actor
  • 1944: Alice Walker,  novelist 
  • 1946:  Jim Webb, U.S. senator (D-Va)
  • 1945: Mia (Maria) Farrow, actress
  • 1949: Judith Light, actress
  • 1960: Holly Johnson, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
  • 1963: Travis Tritt, country singer

Chamber of Secret Sacrifices

February 9, 2008 Raphael O'Suna No Comments

A very elderly man once told me that every heart has at least two very private chambers. One holds a person’s bitterness; the other, a person’s secret heart sacrifices. Bitterness is nothing to be ashamed of, as long as it is self-contained.

It is perfectly normal to feel bitter about the loss of loved ones, about illness and disease, about aging and about not obtaining one’s heart’s desire. Regrets are different than bitterness. Bitterness is akin to indignation–it is a deep wound which never heals. Bitterness concerns itself with the recognition that we live in an imperfect universe, ruled by imperfect gods.

Bitterness is the sense that in a universe which appears orderly, organized and just, man is born into pain, suffering, diminishment and loss. There is no medicine, but wisdom to treat bitterness. Faith, trust, illusion and dim awareness may cover up the symptoms, but they will never turn bitterness to joy. Wisdom is the producer and product of that other locked chamber.

The chamber of secret sacrifices. These sacrifices bring power, opportunity and sacredness. They help one to conquer the nature of love. Even love and wisdom may not heal the wound of bitterness, but they will keep it clean and isolated. Contained. Neither dramatized nor infected with fear, doubt or self-pity.

– Raphael O’Suna Haiku