April 25, 2008
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 National Arbor Day
Day 116 of 2008
250 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — La‘au: Tree
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Diwai: Tree
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The branches grow because of the trunk.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “You can always tell a Dogwood by its bark.” (Anon)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog
ARBOR DAY April 25th: National Arbor Day is the last Friday of April making it on April 25, 2008. But some U.S. States celebrate this tree-planting holiday on other days of the year. The first Arbor Day took place on April 10, 1872 in Nebraska. It was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), a Nebraska journalist and politician originally from Michigan. Throughout his long and productive career, Morton worked to improve agricultural techniques in his adopted state and throughout the United States when he served as President Grover Cleveland’s Secretary of Agriculture. His most important legacy is Arbor Day, originally celebrated on his birthday, April 22.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 25th
- 1507: America got its name from German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, who first used the term on a world map
- 1792: Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by guillotine.
- 1859: Ground was broken for the Suez Canal.
- 1898: The United States declared war on Spain.
- 1901: New York became the first state to require automobile license plates.
- 1959: The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.
- 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery.
- 1992: Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.
- 1998: Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for a failed savings and loan.
- 2003: Georgia lawmakers voted to scrap the Dixie cross from the state’s flag.
BORN ON THIS DAY — April 25th
- 1599: Oliver Cromwell, soldier and statesman
- 1840: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer
- 1874: Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel physicist and inventor
- 1908: Edward R. Murrow, radio and television broadcaster
- 1917: Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
- 1931: Paul Mazursky, actor/director
- 1941: Al Pacino, actor
- 1970: Renee Zellweger, actress
- 1946: Stu Cook, rock musician
- 1948: Jeffrey DeMunn, actor
- 1965: Hank Azaria, actor
- 1965: Andy Bell, rock singer
- 1971: Jason Lee, actor
April 24, 2008
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Scoop the Poop Week
Day 115 of 2008
251 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Luna kanawai: Judge
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Jas: Judge
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “One cannot tell by his crowing what the cock’s spur can do.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I don’t want to know what the law is. I want to know who the judge is.” (Roy Cohn)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog
YESTERDAY - April 23rd: Maui District court Judge Joseph Cardoza issued a preliminary injunction against Honua‘ula development project (formerly called Wailea 670). Read more in the Maui News … Save Makena …
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 24th
- 1800: The Library of Congress is founded with a $5000 allocation
- 1877: Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
- 1897: The first reporter, William Price, is assigned to the White House
- 1898: Spain declares war on the U.S., rejecting the ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
- 1961: JFK accepts “sole responsibility” following the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs incursion into Cuba
- 1969: Paul McCartney says their is no truth to the rumors that he is dead
- 1989: 10’s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
- 1991: Calling it “simply not enough”, an Alaskan judge rejects the agreement reached with Exxon on March 13th of $1 billion for the Valdeze Oil Spill
- 2005: Pope Benedict XVI was installed as leader of the Roman Catholic Church in cermonies at the Vatican.
BORN ON THIS DAY — April 24th
- 1815: Anthony Trollope, novelist/poet
- 1904: Willem De Kooning, artist
- 1905: Robert Penn Warren, first U.S. poet laureate
- 1934: Shirley MacLaine, actress/mystic
- 1936: Jill Ireland, actress
- 1941: John Williams, guitarist
- 1942: Barbra Streisand, singer/actress
- 1963: Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker
- 1971: Colleen Quinn, actress
- 1976: Shane McDermott, actor
- 1979: Rebecca Lynn Howard, country singer
- 1979: Rebecca Mader, actress
- 1983: Kelly Clarkson, singer
April 22, 2008
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Jelly Bean Day
Day 113 of 2008
253 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ao honua: Earth
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Graun: Earth
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Great Earth, animated and adorned by Kane.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew.” (Marshal McLuhan)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog
EARTH DAY- April 22nd, 2008: Earth Day is the name given for two different celebrations, both held each spring in the northern hemisphere. They are intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth and its environment. The United Nations celebrates an Earth Day each year on the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring (usually March 21), an observance initiated by peace activist John McConnell in 1969.A second Earth Day more commonly observed in the U.S., was founded by US Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in the late 1960s. It is celebrated annually in many countries on April 22. Other Earth Day celebrations occur on convenient weekends near these dates, as it was on Maui, April 20.
Earth Day Network | We Can Solve It | The Wilderness Society
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 22nd
- 1509: Henry VIII ascends to the throne of England
- 1529: Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragossa
- 1861: Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia forces
- 1864: U.S. Congress authorized “In God We Trust” on coinage
- 1889: Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were Sooner
- 1954: Senator Joseph McCarthy (D., Wisconsin) begins hearing on Communists
- 2000: Armed immigration agents seize Elian Gonzalez from his relatives’ home, in a pre-dawn raid in Miami (Elian is subsequently reunited with his father at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington)
- 2004: Pro football player Pat Tillman, who’d traded in a multimillion-dollar contract to serve as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan, was killed by friendly fire; he was 27.
- 2005: Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.)
- 2006: The Iraqi parliament elected Jalal Talabani to another term as president.
BORN ON THIS DAY — April 22nd
- 1707: Henry Fielding, novelist
- 1724: Immanuel Kant, philosopher
- 1777: Henry Clay, the great compromiser
- 1870: Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Bolshevik
- 1904: J Robert Oppenheimer, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project
- 1908: Eddie Albert , actor
- 1922: Charles Mingus, jazz bassist
- 1925: Yehudi Menuhin, violin virtuoso
- 1928: Aaron Spelling, TV producer
- 1930: Vladimir Nabokov, novelist
- 1935: Glen Campbell, actor/singer
- 1937: Jack Nicholson, actor
- 1950: Peter Frampton, rock guitarist/vocalist
- 1974: Scott Nemes, actor
- 1980: Aaron Metchnik, actor
- 1984: Michelle Ryan, actress
April 20, 2008
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1st Day of Passover
Day 111 of 2008
255 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lewa Malaho: Outer Space
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Mobeta: If would be better if …
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Strive for the summit.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I’m astounded by people who want to know the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.” (Woody Allen)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog
TODAY: Celebrate Earth Day 10am to Sunset at Baldwin Beach Park, Paia
April 20th, 2008: Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho, both of Honolulu, have made the news by filing suit in their hometown against the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). Their problem: they think that once the brand new particle accelerator CERN is putting together on the Swiss-French border is operational, it’s going to cause a black hole that will swallow up the earth.
The U.S. lawsuit can’t stop CERN from firing the thing up this summer, but the plaintiffs hope that it will stop American companies from helping CERN.
For the record, it IS a possibility that a black hole will form. Any black hole which did would indeed crush in microseconds everything here into nonexistence. However, to calculate the possibility requires a computer, because it is so small that it is outrageously more likely that aliens would appear on Diamond Head tomorrow than a black hole appear — ever.
We’ll report from Diamond Head tomorrow….
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 20th
- 1967: U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War
- 1967: The U.S. Surveyor 3 probe lands on Moon
- 1971: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
- 1977: The U.S. Supreme Court rules “Live Free or Die” may be covered on New Hampshire licenses
- 1983: President Reagan signs a bill to “rescue” the Social Security System from bankruptcy
- 1999: Two students go on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado, killing 12 students and one teacher before taking their own lives
- 2001: A Peruvian air force jet shoots down a small plane carrying American missionaries in Peru’s Amazon jungle region, killing Veronica Bowers and her infant daughter, Charity
BORN ON THIS DAY — April 20th
- 121: Marcus Aurelius, 16th Roman emperor/philosopher
- 1889: Adolph Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany
- 1893: Joan Miro, painter/sculptor
- 1909: Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser
- 1920: John Paul Stevens, 103rd Supreme Court Justice
- 1923: Tito Puente, bandleader
- 1940: George Takei, actor (Sulu-Star Trek)
- 1941: Ryan O’Neal, actor
- 1949: Jessica Lange, actress
- 1951: Luther Vandross, rock vocalist
- 1959: Clint Howard, actor
- 1964: Crispin Glover, actor
- 1967: J D Roth, TV host
- 1967: Lara Jill Miller, actress
- 1978: Clayne Crawford, actor
February 11, 2008
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Make a Friend Day
Day 42 of 2008
324 days left in this year |
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Nene: Hawaiian goose
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— i gat planti samting: Rich, wealthy
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY—
“The Plover eats until fat, then returns to the land from which it came.”
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Project Gutenberg
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Squirrel ala Huckabee
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — TWiT.TV
UPCOMING EVENTS — Feb. 22: “Give Peace a Dance”
February 11th, 2007: Lauren Cabell of the New York Times reports that Maui has turned into Bakersfield, California, with over development, traffic, ugly box stores, etc. She muses that she is beginning to wonder why people spend so much money to come to a place which has homogenized itself for the sake of aggrandizing its properties to rich people. Seemingly unrelated, Conde-Nast publications the following year do NOT put Maui in the top five world islands to visit. After decades of local profiteers and their political puppets plundering this island paradise’s environment and Hawaiian culture, Maui has finally managed to kill the Nene that laid the golden egg.
NOTE: The Nene (Branta sandwicensis) is the Hawaii State Bird and currently on the Federal List of Endangered Species. There are currently only about 800 wild Nene remaining in Hawaii.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 11th
- 1531: Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church in England
- 1573: Francis Drake views the Pacific for the first time
- 1794: The first session of the U.S. Senate opens to the public
- 1809: Robert Fulton is granted a patent for the steamboat
- 1861: President-elect Lincoln departs Springfield Illinois to travel to Washington DC
- 1878: The first U.S. bicycle club forms (Boston Bicycle Club)
- 1878: The first weekly weather report is published
- 1945: Yalta Agreement signed during World War II
- 1963: The CIA Domestic Operations Division is created
- 1979: Followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seize power in Iran,
- 1988: Anthony M Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court
- 1989: Barbara C Harris becomes the first woman consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal Church
- 1990: Nelson Mandela is freed after serving 27 years in prison
- 1993: President Clinton announces his choice of Miami prosecutor Janet Reno to be the nation’s first female attorney general
- 2006: Madman and Vice President Dick Cheney shot and wounded a quail-hunting buddy. (The companion later apologized for being shot.)
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 11th
- 1833: Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice
- 1847: Thomas Alva Edison, inventor
- 1909: Max Baer, heavyweight boxing champ
- 1912: Roy Fuller, poet/novelist
- 1921: Eva Gabor, actress
- 1921: Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-Tx)
- 1922: Leslie Nielsen, actor
- 1925: Kim Stanley, actress
- 1925: Virginia E Johnson, physician/sex researcher
- 1934: Tina Louise (Tina Blacker), actress
- 1935: Gene Vincent, rock guitarist/vocalist
- 1936: Burt Reynolds, actor
- 1941: Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician
- 1953: Jeb Bush, Florida governor
- 1962: Sheryl Crow, singer/songwriter
- 1969: Jennifer Aniston, actress
- 1979: Brandy (Brandy Norwood), singer
- 1980: Matthew Lawrence, actor
- 1980: Natasha Bobo, actress
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
December 20, 2007
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Nat’l Games Day
354 of 2007
11 days left in this year |
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Elala: Insect, bug
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “He is a tobacco-eating bug.”
Today thru December 30th: Maui Film Festival’s First Light Screenings 
December 20th, 1848: Officially, 18 species of roaches now call Maui home, including the largest breed, the Madeira roach, growing two inches or more. The first roach was from Surinam (pictured), the multicolored roach arrived in 1822.
Bugs have a great and noble history on our island. Mosquitoes arrived in 1826 on a ship from Mexico which bore water casks. It just beat the residence of the centipede, which can grow more than six inches in length and arrived in 1829, though exactly how is not known.
Maui’s four breeds of termites arrived between 1869 and 1907. The most damaging is the dry-wood termite.
Though fruit flies first came from the orient as early as 1885, the most damaging of the breed, the Mediterranean fruit fly, arrived in 1907 on a ship from Australia.
This is not to give short shrift to the estimated 10,000 indigenous Hawaiian insect species, few of which have been lost over time. Insects are a hardy lot, and that is what makes them noble.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – December 20th
- 1669: The first jury trial is held in Delaware
- 1699: Peter the Great orders the Russian New Year changed from September 1st to January 1st
- 1803: the Louisiana Purchase is completed for $27 million
- 1812: Sacagawea, the Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
- 1820: Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men
- 1835: The Cherokee tribe of Native americans are compelled to cede their ancestral lands (eventually the tribe is forced to move west of the Mississippi River, travelling on what is called the “Trail of Tears”)
- 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates the incandescent light
- 1892: The pneumatic automobile tire is patented (Syracuse NY)
- 1977: The world’s first “space walk” is made by cosmonaut G Grechko from Salyut
- 1984: Thirty-three unknown Bach keyboard works are discovered in the Yale library
- 1989: U.S. troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega
- 1990: Robert F.X. Sillerman purchases the WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
- 1999: The Vermont Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to the same benefits and protections as wedded couples of the opposite sex
BORN ON THIS DAY – December 20th
- 1579: John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist
- 1805: Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
- 1868: Harvey S Firestone, Industrialist
- 1875: T.F. Powys, writer
- 1911: Hortense Calisher, novelist
- 1944: Robert Colomby, rocker
- 1945: Peter Criss, rock musician
- 1946: John Spencer, actor
- 1947: Peter Criss, Brooklyn, singer
- 1958: Billy Bragg, British rocker
- 1970: Nicole de Boer, actress
Janurary 23rd, 2007: The U.S. Navy is granted exemption to use Sonar in protected Hawaiian waters.
