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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kaunana: Discover
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Painimautim: Discover
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Be careful lest the result be disastrous to you.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Profits in trade can be made only by another’s loss.” – Publius Syrus

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Sarah Palin’s Lies
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Keating Economics – McCain’s Complicity in Financial Crises
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Radio Nation
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK —  Hole in the Wall Camps

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.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — October 12th
1957: The first commercial flight is made between California and Antartica.
1973: President Nixon nominates House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Michigan) to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie
1999: Pakistan’s military overthrows the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
1999: The world population is projected to have reached 6 billion on this date
2000: An explosion from a suicide bomb attack by terrorists blows a 40′x20′ hole in the destroyer U.S.S. Cole while re-fueling at a port in Yemen (17 sailers are killed, 40 injured)
2001: The third floor of Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan is closed when test results on a skin biopsy reveal that an assistant to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw has contracted cutaneous anthrax apparently from a letter to Brokaw received on 9/25 (the powder in the letter had thrice tested negative for the disease.) This is the fourth contamination by anthrax reported in a week, the first of which killed an American Media photo editor in Florida
2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change wIn the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming