Threading Needle  Day Day 207 of 2008 159 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hala kahiki: Pineapple
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Ananas: Pineapple
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —  “A misshapen gourd makes an ugly container.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.” (Thomas Fuller)

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Graphjam

WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — JibJab - Election 2008
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Tekzilla
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Give Rice to the Hungry

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MAUI DROWNING IN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN - ML&P Lays Off Hundreds: Maui Land & Pineapple Co., one of the oldest Maui companies,  began telling workers Thursday it is cutting its work force by 274 positions in a reorganization under pressure of higher costs and lower revenues. Many of  the layoffs will take effect immediately. 

This follows recent Hawaii layoffs at Aloha Airlines, ATA, and The Honolulu Advertiser. The high cost of airfare, due to record-high fuel costs, is blamed for Maui tourist industry revenues being down as much as 80% in some sectors. Read more …

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 2th
1925: The “Scopes Monkey Trial” ends: after only 8 minutes of deliberation, a jury finds Dayton, TN high school teacher John T. Scopes guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution
1946: The first bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946: The U.S. detonates the first underwater A-bomb at Bikini Island (5th atomic explosion)
1965: Folk-rock begins when Bob Dylan uses an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival
1978: Louise Joy Brown, the first “test-tube baby”, is born in Oldham England (conceived through in-vitro fertilization)
1984: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space
1997: For the first time, a member of an “untouchable” Dalits caste (K.R. Narayanan) becomes India’s president
2000: Texas Governor George W. Bush (at Dick Cheney’s urging) selects Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket