Magna Carta Day

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Day 196 of 2010
169 days left in this year


HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Koho: Election
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Lektrik: Electric
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —   “To welcome the future, you must first release the burdens of the past.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.” (George Orwell)


The Magna  Carta

June 15th, 1215: The Magna Carta was Submitted - requiring King John of England to proclaim certain rights (pertaining to freemen), respect certain legal procedures, and accept that his will could be bound by the law. It explicitly protected certain rights of the King’s subjects, whether free or fettered – and implicitly supported what became the writ of habeas corpus, allowing appeal against unlawful imprisonment. More >

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Farewell Sweet Prince

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastFrench Bastille Day
Day 195 of 2010
170 days left in this year


HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lulai: July
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Julai: July
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —   “You are a hawk, I am a hawk.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Some men rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.” (Woodie Guthrie)


Naish Paddle  Competition - Kahului Harbor

TODAY: Makena Beach & Golf Resort (formerly know as The Maui Prince) Sells - Circuit Judge Shackley F. Raffetto has confirmed the sale of the Makena Beach & Golf Resort on Maui for $95 million. More >

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 14th

  • 1789: The citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison and release the seven prisoners inside
  • 1798: The Sedition Act is passed: prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” writing against the U.S. government
  • 1832: Opium is exempted from federal tariff duty
  • 1921: Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted in Dedham, MA
  • 1986: Richard W. Miller becomes the first FBI agent convicted of espionage
  • 1999: Race-based school busing in Boston ends after 25 years
  • 2000: A Florida jury orders five major tobacco companies to pay smokers a record $145 billion in punitive damages
  • 2004: The Senate votes 50-48 against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
  • 2009: Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrived at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina to begin serving a 150-year sentence.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 14th
  • 1486: Andrea del Sarto, painter
  • 1834: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter
  • 1858: Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette
  • 1862: Gustav Klimt, Art Nouveau painter
  • 1903: Irving Stone, author
  • 1904: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish novelist
  • 1910: William Hanna, animator
  • 1911: Terry-Thomas, actor
  • 1912: Woodie Guthrie, folksinger/songwriter
  • 1913: Gerald Rudolph Ford, 38th U.S. President
  • 1918: Ingmar Bergman, film director
  • 1918: Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory
  • 1926: Harry Dean Stanton, actor
  • 1932: Roosevelt Greer, football player/social activist
  • 1952: Chris Cross, rock singer
  • 1960: Jane Lynch, actress (“Glee”)
  • 1966: Mathew Fox, actor
  • 1967: Patrick Kennedy, Congressman (D-RI)
  • 1979: Scott Porter, actor (“Friday Night Lights”)

DIED ON THIS DAY — July 14th

  • 1816: Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (b. 1750)
  • 1817: Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
  • 1827: Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
  • 1881: Billy the Kid, American outlaw
  • 1904: Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (b. 1824)
  • 1966: Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
  • 1998: Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (b. 1909)

Bon Voyage Mau Piailug

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Day 194 of 2010
171 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Huaka’i: Voyage
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Wokabaut long sip: Voyage
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “We are all voyagers in life’s ocean.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.” (Tom Wolfe)


TODAY: The way-finding navigator Mau Piailug from Satawal, the navigator who reintroduced Hawaiians to traditional Pacific navigational method, has died at the age of 78. In 1976 he was the navigator  aboard the double-hulled sailing canoe Hokule’a sailing on its historic voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti. More >

July 13th 1957: Molokai finally gets an airport, the last large Hawaiian Island to do so.

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Fire & Water Again

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Day 193 of 2010
172 days left in this year


HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kukui: Nut
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Traipela: Fat
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Unity is a precious possession.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I am thankful I am not a Republican.” (H.L.Mencken)


TODAY: Na Wai Eha Decision is Appealed - Earthjustice, representing Hui o Na Wai Eha and the Maui Tomorrow Foundation, filed a notice of appeal with the state Commission on Water Resource Management, seeking to have more diverted water released from Na Wai Eha, “the Four Great Waters OF Maui.” More >
July 12, 1901: Fires that were never explained broke out at Hamakuapoko, and eventually destroyed nearly 300 acres of cane field.

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South Pacific Total Solar Eclipse

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Day 192 of 2010
173 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pouli holo’oko’a ‘ana: Solar eclipse
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Tudak: Darkness
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — Night passes a veil of introspection over the land.
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Polite conversation is rarely either.” (Fran Lebowitz)


TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE TODAY: The eclipse of the Sun is be best visible from the South Pacific Cook Islands at 08:22 local time, the Easter Island, Patagonia and southern Chile, and Argentina. On Easter Island, it is the first total solar eclipse to cross the island in 1,400 years. At its longest, it will last  5 minutes 20 seconds over open Pacific waters starting at 9:33am HST.

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Smellbound

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by Raphael O’Suna

“Take what little language you have, and make it work for you,” he said. “You’ll never be a writer of delicate sentiments and thinly sliced emotions, but you can make people see what you see and feel what you feel. Be honest, simple, direct, sincere and feel what you think.”

He was not himself a great writer or artist. He was not much of anything. He was a man whom I had picked up hitchhiking. He became interesting when he asked me what was the most important thing about a woman to a man. I had answered: “Her face.” “No,” he said: “Her smell. A woman’s scent goes straight to the heart. People think that the nose smells, or the brain,” he said: “But the heart is the organ of perception. And the heart can determine finely sliced qualities through the sense of smell. Women know this,” he added. “They’ve always perfumed and washed and oiled their bodies.”

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Waiting for Doughnuts with Buddha

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Day 191 of 2010
174 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Upena: Fish net
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Supsup: Fish Spear
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A small fish cannot swallow a big one.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Who hears the fishes when they cry?” (Thoreau)


YESTERDAY: Obon dancing at Paia’s Mantokuji Soto Mission Friday evening, where hundreds attended the festivities to enjoy food, drink, dancing and prayer. We got the hiccups after eating mango and custard pie, so went searching for a cure. We discovered a long line of people queued up under a small sign that read “WAIT LINE.” There was no apparent purpose to the waiting but we joined it anyway, saying, “Maybe it’s a Buddhist thing.”  A pleasant, elderly Asian woman who overheard  said, “We’re waiting for doughnuts,” but when we walked away, the hiccups were miraculously gone. There’s more such excitement again this evening at the Paia mission.

July 10th, 1945: For the first  time since the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, local Maui fisherman could fish off the shores of our island. The federal government decided to lift the ban on coastal fishing. The Japanese no longer threatened our shores.

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Reserve Recreation Ban Extended

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Day 190 of 2010
175 days left in this year


HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ka‘awela: Jupiter
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Liklik mun: Planet
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “He has the mouth of an octopus.” (liar)
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Property is theft.” (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)



TODAY:
The Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve in South Maui will remain closed for another two years, the DLNR announced this week.
The reserve, a popular recreation area near La Perouse Bay, was closed Aug. 1, 2008, after large numbers of visitors had been hiking across the lava flows in search of coves that had been publicized in guidebooks as snorkel spots called “Fishbowl” and “Aquarium.” In the photo above, taken two years before the closure, recreationers enjoy one such banned location. More >

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