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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hoa paio: Adversary
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Poro: Friend
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The mouths of people make noise like mud crabs.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” (Frederich Niezsche)

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July 3, 1919: The first copies of the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper are delivered by airmail to Maui. No one wanted to read it then, either.

1775: Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge Massachusetts
1806: Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry
1848: Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands)
1986: The renovated Statue of Liberty is re-dedicated
2001: General Electric’s $41 billion purchase of Honeywell International is vetoed by the European Union
2005: NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.

1567: Samuel de Champlain, explorer
1878: George M. Cohan, producer/director
1883: Franz Kafka, writer
1925: Tony Curtis,  actor
1927: Ken Russell, director
1937: Tom Stoppard, playwright
1941: Gloria Allred, feminist attorney
1943: Geraldo Rivera newsman/TV show host
1947: Dave Barry, humorist
1962: Tom Cruise, actor

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mai’a: Banana
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Wanpela tasol: Alone
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Lying face up and counting the rafters.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.” (Mark Twain)

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kahikoli: Early morning sun
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Ples bilong klaut: Sky
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The firebrand soars proudly over the cliffs.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.” (George Carlin)

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~ 2008 IS HALF OVER
~ FISCAL NEW YEAR

July 1st, 1961: The 30th U.S. National Park is dedicated - Haleakala National Park right here on Maui. It poured during the entire ceremony. Facts, figures, history and lots of good things about this park that includes the world’s largest inactive volcano, are available right here: http://www.nps.gov/hale

June 30, 1959: This really has nothing to do with Maui per se, but I find it interesting anyway. Before Hawaii became a state, the very first commercial jet to come to Hawaii arrived today, from San Francisco. The flight took 4 hours and 49 minutes (which is about what it takes today too). It was a Boeing 707 called The City of Sydney, and yes, it was owned by Quantas Airlines. The Royal Hawaiian Band played “Waltzing Matilda”. And for those of you who remember the movie “Rainman,” yes, it’s true. Quantas is the only major carrier in  the world that has never had an air accident.

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ho‘omana‘o‘ana: Memory
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Holim long tingting: Remember
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “High flies the cloud in the sky lifted by the wind.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Nothing is so much strengthened by practice, nor weakened by neglect, as memory.” (Quintillian)

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WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — John Cusack in Move On’s New Video
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GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Hawaii Canines

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BORN ON THIS DAY - June 28th
1491: Henry VIII, of England
1577: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter
1712: Jean Jacques Rousseau, social commentator
1867: Luigi Pirandello, writer
1909: Eric Ambler, suspense author
1926: Mel Brooks, comedic actor/director/playwright
1933: Pat (Noriyuki) Morita, actor
1945: David Knights, bassist
1946: Gilda Radner, comedienne
1948: Kathy Bates, actress
1960: John Elway, NFL QB
1966: John Cusack, actor
1966: Mary Stuart Masterson, actress
1973: Alessandro Nivola, actor
1986: Kellie Pickler, country singer

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 28th
1838: Britain’s Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey
1938: The National Minimum Wage Act is passed by Congress
1951: The radio program “Amos ‘n Andy” premieres on television (CBS) to become the first TV series with an all-African American cast (also negatively stereotyping African Americans)
1956: The first atomic reactor is built for private research (Chicago Illinois)
1965: The first U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam are authorized by President Johnson
1967: Israel formally declares that Jerusalem is reunified under its sovereignty (the Arab sector was captured in June)
1977: The U.S. Supreme Court rules to allow Federal control of the Nixon tapes and transcripts
2000: Elian Gonzalez is returned to Cuba, seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits
2000: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders
2001: Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was handed over by Serbia to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
2004: The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Ano o ka nohana: Environment
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Bus: Countryside
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Where were you when the rain poured?”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land .” (Wendell Berry)

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TODAY: Hawai’i First in Nation to Require Solar
This landmark legislation (Act 204) to require solar on new homes would not have passed without community support. But Governor Linda Lingle is threatening to veto three key environmental bills.

Contact Governor Lingle at 808-586-0034 or governor.lingle@hawaii.gov ASAP (before Friday, July 4), thank her for supporting the Solar Roofs bill, and ask that she let the measures below become law.

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 27th
1846: Charles Stewart Parnell, Ireland nationalist
1869: Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher
1880: Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer
1927: Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo/Clarabelle
1938: Bruce E. Babbitt, former governor of AZ
1942: Bruce Johnston, rocker
1966: J.J. Abrams, writer/producer
1975: Tobey Maguire, actor
1991: Madylin Sweeten, actress

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 27th
1542: Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo departs from the port of Navidad Mexico, leading the first European expedition to explore what is now the west coast of the United States
1838: Queen Victoria is crowned
1844: Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, is killed (Carthage IL)
1846: Smithsonian Institution established
1847: Telegraph wires connect Boston and New York
1950: President Truman orders Air Force and Navy troops into the Korean conflict after the U.N. calls for assistance for South Korea
1950: The U.S. sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
1954: CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow the elected government of Guatemala
1955: The first automobile seat belt legislation is enacted (Illinois)
1969: The birth of the homosexual rights movement: police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village NY (about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against the police for 3 days)
1973: John W Dean tells the Watergate Committee about the “enemies list” of the Nixon White House
1986: The World Court rules that U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan Contras is illegal
1990: Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8,600 to help their earthquake victims
2007 Former Treasury chief Gordon Brown became British prime minister, succeeding Tony Blair.

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ho’okani: To make music
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Renbo: Rainbow
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anyone unintentionally. If I insult you. you can be goddamn sure I intend to.” (John Wayne)

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WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein’s Website
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June 26, 1997: A GIANT DIES — Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole dies at the age of 38 because he can’t put his Poi down. At 758 pounds, he dies of complications from obesity, and instantly becomes a beloved singer and ukulele player nationwide. A gentle giant in the true sense of the word, Israel has many times the number of albums since his death than before. Perhaps his most well-known song is his version of “Somehwere Over the Rainbow,” which you can hear/see on YouTube.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 26th
1945: The charter of the United Nations is signed by 50 countries in San Francisco
1948: The Berlin Airlift begins in earnest as the United States, Britain and France began ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes
1963: President John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin, where he declared in a speech, “Ich bin ein Berliner”
1998: The Supreme Court issues a landmark sexual harassment ruling, putting employers on notice that they can be held responsible for supervisors’ misconduct even if they knew nothing about it
2000: Rival scientific teams complete the first rough map of the human genetic code
2003: The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, strikes down state bans on gay sex

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 26th
1730: Charles Messier, cataloger of astronomical “M objects”
1887: Anthony G de Rothschild, philanthropist
1892: Pearl S Buck, author
1904: Peter Lorre, actor
1909: Col Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager
1916: Alex Dreier, Honolulu Hawaii, newscaster
1922: Eleanor Parker, actress
1939: Charles Robb, (Sen-D-Va)
1955: Mick Jones, rocker
1956: Chris Isaak, musician/actor
1970: Chris O’Donnell, actor
1970: Sean Hayes, comedic actor
1974: Derek Jeter, shortstop
1981: Jason Schwartzman, actor
1981: Michael Vick, football player

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Po‘akolu: Wednesday
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Trinde: Wednesday
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Fish poison should be used in the daytime.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Some animals are more equal than others.” (George Orwell, Animal Farm)

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EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 25th
1798: U.S. passes the Alien Act, allowing the President to deport dangerous aliens
1835: The town of Pueblo is founded with construction of first building (later called Yerba Buena, still later San Francisco)
1876: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Native Americans of the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana
1929: President Hoover authorizes the construction of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1938: Federal minimum wage law goes into effect, guaranteeing workers 40¢ per hour
1951: The first commercial color TV broadcast: CBS’ Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
1962: The U.S. Supreme Court rules NY public school prayer is unconstitutional
1973: Former Nixon aide John Dean tells a Senate committee that he and others did attempt to cover up White House involvement in the Watergate break-in
1991: Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
1996: A truck bomb kills 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia
1998: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that persons infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act
2001: New York legislators pass a bill to ban hand-held cell phone use by automobile drivers
2005 Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran’s presidential runoff election.

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 25th
1903: George Orwell, satirist/author
1924: Sydney Lumet, director
1945: Carly Simon, singer
1949: Brenda Sykes, actress/comedian
1961: Ricky Gervais, actor
1963: George Michael, rocker
1963: Mike Myers, comedian
1968: Jackie Swanson, actress
1969: Stephanie Cameron, actress
1975: Linda Cardellini, actress

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DY — Ho’okui: Hit
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Boskru bilong balus: Crew of a plane
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “One can enjoy a canoe ride when the paddler is skilled.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music…and of aviation.” (Tom Stoppard)

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June 24th, 1941: Haleakala proves deadly to three Navy planes piloted by Marines who were making a routine night flight over Maui about six months before the U.S. entered World War II. In what is still today a somewhat inexplicable occurrence, all three planes hit the west side of the volcano at about 8,000 feet and the pilots die.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 24th
1497: John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
1509: Henry VIII becomes King of England
1861: Tennessee becomes the 11th (& last) state to secede from the U.S.
1949: “Hopalong Cassidy” becomes the first televised network western (NBC)
1968: “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970: U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1997: The Air Force releases a report on the 1947 “Roswell Incident” that states the alien bodies seen by witnesses were actually life-sized dummies
1998: AT&T Corp. agrees to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion
2004: Federal investigators question President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative’s name.

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 24th
1771: EI Du Pont, chemist/scientist
1813: Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman/orator
1842: Ambrose Bierce, satirist
1912: Norman Cousins, editor
1915: Fred Hoyle, cosmologist
1916: John Ciardi, poet/critic
1942: Mick Fleetwood, drummer
1944: Bruce Johnston, rocker
1944: Jeff Beck, singer/songwriter
1947: Peter Weller, actor
1950: Nancy Allen, actress
1957: Astro, reggae singer
1961: Curt Smith, rocker
1979: Mindy Kaling actress/producer
1987: Kaitlin Cullum, actress